The task of studying the impact of social class on physical and mental health involves,
among other things, the use of a conceptual toolbox that defines what social class is …

An extensive body of research has documented the relation between social class, as
indexed by socioeconomic status (SES) and subjective social status (SSS), and a host of …

Since the early 2000s, evidence has been accumulating that subjective social status–a
person's sense of their own position on the social ladder–affects health above and beyond …

Study objective: To review existing data on social class gradients in adolescent health and
to examine whether such gradients exist in new data concerning US adolescents. Design …

The measurement of socioeconomic status (SES) is a serious matter that requires us to think
more precisely about both conceptual issues and issues more traditionally thought of as …

The literature on health inequalities often uses measures of socio-economic position
pragmatically to rank the population to describe inequalities in health rather than to …

While a substantial body of evidence demonstrates a strong association between
socioeconomic variables and health outcomes, most analyses conceptualize socioeconomic …

This article adopts Pierre Bourdieu's cultural–structuralist approach to conceptualizing and
identifying social classes in social space and seeks to identify health effects of class in one …

In recent years, scholars from a variety of disciplines have turned to the potential
psychosocial determinants of health in pursuit of an explanation for socioeconomic and …

The social structure and personality perspective provides a theoretical and analytical
framework for understanding the persisting association between socioeconomic status …