Education, Social Status, and Health

In: Social Institutions and Social Change

Abstract

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: A Rediscovery -- Chapter Previews -- 1 Education as Learned Effectiveness -- Education, Learned Effectiveness, and Health -- Education and Socioeconomic Status -- Education as a Root Cause of Good Health -- 2 The Association between Education and Health -- Defining Health -- Measuring Health -- Education's Correlation with Health Measures -- 3 Education, Personal Control, Lifestyle, and Health -- Education and Human Capital -- Designing a Healthy Lifestyle -- The Sense of Control Links Education to Healthy Lifestyle -- 4 Education, Socioeconomic Status, and Health -- Economic Resources -- Productive Activities -- Education, Socioeconomic Status, and Health -- 5 Education, Interpersonal Relationships, and Health -- Education, Marriage, and Social Support -- Marriage and Health -- 6 Age and Cumulative Advantage -- Accumulating Effects -- Amplifying Effects -- Decline Slowed or Only Delayed? -- Education's Cumulative Advantage -- 7 Specious Views of Education -- Education as Credential -- Education as Reproducer of Inequality -- Education as False Satisfier -- Education as Spurious Correlate -- Education, Inequality, and Health -- Education: The Solution, Not the Problem -- 8 Conclusion: Self-Direction Toward Health -- Learned Effectiveness Tops Access to Lucrative Positions -- Learned Effectiveness Provides Control over Lifestyle and Circumstances -- Education Has Pervasive, Cumulative, Self-Amplifying Benefits -- Lack of Education Turns Low Income into Privation -- Structural Amplification Concentrates Problems -- Resource Accumulation and Substitution Imply Structural Amplification -- No One Loses When Someone Gains Control -- Education: The Answer -- 9 Data and Measures -- ASOC: U.S. Nationwide Survey -- CCH: Illinois Statewide Survey