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Divisions between different classes are perhaps not as clear as they used to be.
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ANITA FINN AF/HSB/02 INEQUALITIES AND HEALTH. A lot of characteristics of different social classes have changed over the years as society has changed, and the divisions between different classes are perhaps not as clear as they used to be. But it is just as possible to find hundreds of ways in which the lifestyles, behaviour, opportunities and judgments of people are still greatly influenced by the social class they belong to. There are clear differences shown in the relationships between health and differences in class. Joy lives in a working class family. She and her family live in poor and unhealthy environment. The family has a poor unsuitable diet consisting mainly of traditional fast foods and the majority of the family are smokers. It is speculated from this that joy and her family are in the higher margin to suffer physical and mental illness. Working class people carry this stigma due to their living conditions...
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