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HOW FAR DOES HEALTH DATA SUGGEST THAT SOCIAL CLASS REMAINS THE KEY CONCEPT FOR UNDERSTANDING CONTEMPORARY UK SOCIETY?
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HOW FAR DOES HEALTH DATA SUGGEST THAT SOCIAL CLASS REMAINS THE KEY CONCEPT FOR UNDERSTANDING CONTEMPORARY UK SOCIETY? Society consists of social stratification of unequal layers or strata based on some social characteristics such as social class and social mobility, which are typical features of modern societies. Socio-economic positions in modern societies become more achieved than ascribed. The awareness of health inequalities in Britain can be linked to socio-economic factors, which is dated as far back as the seventh century. In the nineteenth century stresses on occupation and late social classes emerged from the General Register Office, founded in 1837 which used data from occupation on death certificates and census information on numbers in each occupation to examine mortality rates amongst different groups of workers (Scambler & Higgs, 1999: 276). According to Marx class was defined in terms of economic relationships also relating to the history of class struggle. He combined...
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