Social Class affects all aspects of our life, from dying early to getting sick, to good health care, divorce, and how we raise our children, our religion, our political preference, what education standards is within our reach, right down to people who commit crimes and the criminal justice system. The following seven “Consequences of Social Class” are Physical Health, mental health, family life, education, religion, politics and crime and criminal justice.
Politics
People toward the bottom of the class structure are also less likely to be politically active-campaign for candidates or even to vote; …show more content…
Mental Health
As you go up the social class ladder, stress is less and it doesn't have a good effect on mental health however they have more resources to help cope. Whereas lower classes have a higher ratio of stress due to poverty, job security, eviction and marriages are more likely to end in divorce.
Henslin, J. M. (2013). Essentials of Sociology: A Down-to-Earth Approach, 11/e. Pearson. Ch 8 p233 …show more content…
The poor have individual issues and inadequacy that are responsible for their poverty. At one time, the poor were thought to be naturally substandard, a view that has not by any stretch of the creative energy smeared, yet today the considerably more normal conviction is that they neglect to offer the yearning and spark to lock in and to accomplish accomplishment. , the poor generally have feelings and values that change from those of the non-poor and that destiny them to continue with poverty. For example, they are said to be impulsive and to live for the present instead of what's to come.
Structural explanation of poverty
Structural Poverty results from issues in society that incite an unfortunate inadequacy of chance and a nonattendance of occupations in which is a reproving the-composition approach. These issues wire racial, ethnic, sexual presentation, and age division; nonattendance of exceptional training and worthy human organizations; and structural changes in the budgetary mapping. These issues help make an unending round of poverty in which children of the poor are routinely bound to wind up in poverty or close poverty themselves as grown-ups.
Henslin, J. M. (2013). Essentials of Sociology: A Down-to-Earth Approach, 11/e. Pearson. Ch 8 p243