Premorbid Social Underachievement in Schizophrenia

1993 ◽  
Vol 162 (1) ◽  
pp. 65-71 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. B. Jones ◽  
P. Bebbington ◽  
A. Foerster ◽  
S. W. Lewis ◽  
R. M. Murray ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Class ◽  
Social Status ◽  
Age At Onset ◽  
Specific Effect ◽  
Affective Psychosis ◽  
Occupational Level ◽  
Developmental Origin ◽  
Schizophrenic Patients ◽  
Lower Social Class

In an investigation of the timing and precursors of social decline in schizophrenia and affective psychosis, 195 subjects from the Camberwell Collaborative Psychosis Study were currently of lower social class than were their fathers. A comparison between father's occupation and proband's best premorbid occupational level indicated underachievement confined to DSM–III schizophrenia, there being no such effect in affective psychosis. Decline in social status following onset of psychosis, analysed by comparing best premorbid occupation with current occupation, was marked in both schizophrenia and affective psychosis, indicating a non-specific effect. Schizophrenic patients who failed to achieve their fathers' social status had poorer educational qualifications than those who equalled or bettered their paternal social class, despite similar premorbid IQ (NART) scores and age at onset of psychosis. These results indicate that schizophrenia may be manifest before the onset of psychosis, and lend weight to the notion of a developmental origin to this disorder.

scholarly journals The Allure of Being Modern: Personal Quality as Status Symbol Among Migrant Families in Shanghai

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiaoli Tian
Keyword(s):  
Social Class ◽  
Social Status ◽  
Migrant Workers ◽  
Cultural Discourses ◽  
Personal Quality ◽  
Parents And Children ◽  
Lower Social Class ◽  
Micro Level ◽  
Chinese Migrant Workers ◽  
The City

This paper examines how the powerful suzhi (personal quality) discourse affects the subjective understanding of Chinese migrant workers towards their situation in the city in order to elucidate the micro-level processes that the lower social class acculturate to the dominant cultural capital. Many migrants from the Chinese countryside have remained in Shanghai despite that in doing so, their children are prohibited from taking senior high school and college entrance examinations. In two waves of interviews with migrant parents and children over a 10-year period, parents have justified their decision to remain in the city, reasoning that their children adopt “modern” habits, behaviors and lifestyles which render them “modernized”, and thus elevate their social status even without a higher education. Cultural discourses with strong connotations of authority and power provide the framework that the migrants use to improve their relative social status at the micro-level. This research foregrounds the consideration of relative social status in decision-making and social behavior as a micro-process through which the lower social class subscribes to a cultural discourse that reduces them to a lower position.

scholarly journals Roszczeniowość vs ugodowość. Postawy rodzicielskie w środowiskach szkolnych z perspektywy teorii reprodukcji społeczno-kulturowej Pierre’a Bourdieu

1970 ◽  
pp. 185-209
Author(s):  
Jurczak-Morris Marta
Keyword(s):  
Social Class ◽  
Social Interactions ◽  
Social Status ◽  
Research Study ◽  
Educational Aspirations ◽  
Social Background ◽  
Parental Participation ◽  
Clear Vision ◽  
Lower Social Class ◽  
Education Process

  School is a unique environment of social interactions. It generates the variety of attitudes and behaviours. This paper demonstrates differences in the attitudes towards school of parents, according to their social status. The research study emphasises that social class is one of the key determinants of ways in which parents participate in their children’s education process. Likewise, it shows that educational aspirations of a certain group of parents, as well as their vision of what education should look like vary and make up specific‘class patterns’ of parental participation in education. This qualitative rese-arch clarifiesthat most parents from advantaged social background have a clear vision on education as well as expectations towards school. They are therefore more likely to demand and complain. On the contrary, parents from a lower social class tend to be conciliatory, unquestionably trusting the school institution.

Schizophrenia: Sociocultural Factors

1981 ◽  
Vol 26 (3) ◽  
pp. 186-188 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roger C. Bland ◽  
Helen Orn
Keyword(s):  
Social Class ◽  
Sociocultural Factors ◽  
Lower Grade ◽  
Eastern European ◽  
Language Groups ◽  
Long Term Follow Up ◽  
Schizophrenic Patients ◽  
English Speaking ◽  
Lower Social Class

Social factors in an incidence by first admission group of forty-three carefully rediagnosed schizophrenic patients, who were the subject of a long term follow-up, were examined. The findings were: — Schizophrenics are predominantly lower social class — Drift from higher to lower social class prior to the onset of illness was not substantiated — Families of origin were predominantly lower social class — Patients were likely to have lower grade occupations than their fathers despite both frequently being lower social class — An excess of urban resident patients, but many of them came from rural resident families — Immigrants as a whole are not over-represented — Minority immigrant groups and minority language groups were over-represented — ‘At risk’ immigrant profile is: male, single, recent immigrant, eastern European origin, non-English speaking, poorly educated, in a lower grade occupation than his father.

A comparison of anorexia nervosa and affective psychosis in young females

1990 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 119-123 ◽  
Author(s):  
John M. Eagles ◽  
Arlette M. Wilson ◽  
David Hunter ◽  
John S. Callender
Keyword(s):  
Anorexia Nervosa ◽  
Social Class ◽  
Affective Disorders ◽  
Psychiatric Illness ◽  
Age At Onset ◽  
Case Note ◽  
Retrospective Case ◽  
Affective Psychosis ◽  
Young Females ◽  
Educational Attainments

SYNOPSISIn a retrospective case note study, 73 young females with anorexia nervosa were compared with 88 young females with affective psychosis. These groups of patients did not differ in terms of place of residence, birth order or social class. They differed very significantly, however, in terms of age at onset of symptoms, marital status, educational attainments and in the pattern of family histories of psychiatric illness. It is concluded that anorexics and young females with affective disorders are two quite distinct groups of patients.

Social class, social status, and the pursuit of happiness

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Manana Mesropian ◽  
Michael W. Kraus ◽  
Cameron Anderson
Keyword(s):  
Social Class ◽  
Social Status ◽  
Pursuit Of Happiness

‘Urfi marriage, an Egyptian Version of Cohabitation?

1970 ◽  
pp. 64-69
Author(s):  
Ikran Eum
Keyword(s):  
Social Class ◽  
Young People ◽  
The State ◽  
Sexual Desires ◽  
Lower Social Class ◽  
State Pension

In Egypt, the term ‘urfi2 in relation to marriage means literally “customary” marriage, something that has always existed in Egypt but nowadays tends mostly to be secretly practiced among young people. Traditionally, according to Abaza,3 ‘urfi marriage took place not only for practical purposes (such as enabling widows to remarry while keeping the state pension of their deceased husbands), but also as a way of matchmaking across classes (since men from the upper classes use ‘urfi marriage as a way of marrying a second wife from a lower social class). In this way a man could satisfy his sexual desires while retaining his honor by preserving his marriage to the first wife and his position in the community to which he belonged, and keeping his second marriage secret.

Doing Bodhisattva’s Work

2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (4) ◽  
pp. 4-32
Author(s):  
Le Hoang Anh Thu
Keyword(s):  
Social Interaction ◽  
Social Class ◽  
Social Status ◽  
Social Stratification ◽  
Social Groups ◽  
The State ◽  
Ho Chi Minh City ◽  
Class Identity ◽  
The Social

This paper explores the charitable work of Buddhist women who work as petty traders in Hồ Chí Minh City. By focusing on the social interaction between givers and recipients, it examines the traders’ class identity, their perception of social stratification, and their relationship with the state. Charitable work reveals the petty traders’ negotiations with the state and with other social groups to define their moral and social status in Vietnam’s society. These negotiations contribute to their self-identification as a moral social class and to their perception of trade as ethical labor.

Social class and envy among Chinese undergraduates: Victim justice sensitivity as a mediator

2020 ◽  
Vol 48 (6) ◽  
pp. 1-9
Author(s):  
You-Juan Hong ◽  
Rong-Mao Lin ◽  
Rong Lian
Keyword(s):  
Social Class ◽  
Negative Emotion ◽  
Social Hierarchy ◽  
Scholarly Research ◽  
Justice Sensitivity ◽  
Lower Social Class ◽  
Subjective Social Class ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Chinese Undergraduates

We examined the relationship between social class and envy, and the role of victim justice sensitivity in this relationship among a group of 1,405 Chinese undergraduates. The students completed measures of subjective social class, victim justice sensitivity, and dispositional envy. The results show that a lower social class was significantly and negatively related to envy and victim justice sensitivity, whereas victim justice sensitivity was significantly and positively related to envy. As predicted, a lower social class was very closely correlated with envy. In addition, individuals with a lower (vs. higher) social class had a greater tendency toward victim justice sensitivity, which, in turn, increased their envy. Overall, our results advance scholarly research on the psychology of social hierarchy by clarifying the relationship between social class and the negative emotion of envy.

scholarly journals Autistic traits in offspring of schizophrenic patients in comparison to those of normal population: a case-control study

2021 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Shimaa Ibrahim Amin ◽  
Ghada Mohamed Salah EL-Deen
Keyword(s):  
Social Class ◽  
Autistic Traits ◽  
Autism Spectrum ◽  
Cutoff Point ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Case Group ◽  
Parental History ◽  
Autism Quotient ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Schizophrenic Patients

Abstract Background Autism is not a discreet condition and those families members with autistic propend are more likely to display autistic symptoms with a wide range of severity, even below the threshold for diagnosis of autism spectrum disorders. Even with a parental history of schizophrenia, the likelihood of autistic spectrum disorder was found to be 3-fold greater. The aim of this study is to assess autistic traits among offspring of schizophrenic patients in the age group from 4 to 11 years and compare it in the offspring of normal individuals, and its association with the sociodemographic data. To determine whether schizophrenic parents are a risk factor to autistic traits in their children. Results There was a statistically significant (P < 0.05*) increase in Autism Quotient Child scores of the case group where 47.2% had a score equal or more than the cutoff point (76), while only 17 19.4% of the control group had the same score with odds = 3.71 indicating that children of schizophrenic parents 18 were three times likely to have Autism Quotient-Child score greater than or equal to the cutoff point (76) than 19 children of healthy parents. No statistically significant association (P ≥ 0.05) was found between all 20 sociodemographic characteristics and Autism Quotient-Child scores among the case group except for family 21 income and social class where there was a statistically significant association (P < 0.05) between insufficient income 22 and low social class and higher Autism Quotient-Child score (≥ 76). Conclusions Children of schizophrenic parents are at high risk to have autistic traits than children of normal parents.

Subjective social class, perceived quality of social relationships, and happiness: A case of mediation and moderation across gender

2020 ◽  
Vol 35 (3) ◽  
pp. 312-335
Author(s):  
Jae-Woo Kim ◽  
Chaeyoon Lim ◽  
Christina Falci
Keyword(s):  
Social Class ◽  
Social Status ◽  
Relationship Quality ◽  
Social Relationships ◽  
Social Relationship ◽  
Perceived Quality ◽  
Mediating Effect ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Subjective Social Class

This study investigates the link between social relationship and subjective well-being in the context of social stratification. The authors examine how perceived quality of social relationships and subjective social class are linked to self-reported happiness among men and women in South Korea. The study finds that one’s perception of relative social standing is positively associated with happiness independently of objective indicators of socioeconomic status, while social relationship quality strongly predicts the happiness among both men and women. However, the mediation pathway and moderating effects vary by gender. For men, the nexus between subjective social class and happiness is partially mediated by the quality of interpersonal relationships. No similar mediating effect is found among women. The study also finds gender difference in whether the link between social relationship quality and happiness varies by subjective social class. The happiness return to positive social relationships increases as men’s subjective social status becomes higher, which is consistent with the resource multiplication hypothesis. No similar moderation effect is found among women. Combined, these results reveal potentially different pathways to happiness across gender in Korea, where social status competition, collectivistic culture, and patriarchal gender relations are salient in daily life.

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