
Handbook of Social Status Correlates
Academic Press
Published on 4. January 2018
Book
Hardback
490 pages
978-0-12-805371-3 (ISBN)
Description
The Handbook of Social Status Correlates summarizes findings from nearly 4000 studies on traits associated with variations in socioeconomic status. Much of the information is presented in roughly 300 tables, each one providing a visual snapshot of what research has indicated regarding how a specific human trait appears to be correlated with socioeconomic status. The social status measures utilized and the countries in which each study was conducted are also identified.
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Language
English
Place of publication
San Diego
United States
Publishing group
Elsevier Science Publishing Co Inc
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 276 mm
Width: 216 mm
Weight
1560 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-12-805371-3 (9780128053713)
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Lee Ellis | Anthony W. Hoskin | Malini Ratnasingam
Handbook of Social Status Correlates
E-Book
01/2018
Academic Press
€71.95
Available for download
Persons
Lee Ellis earned his PhD from Florida State University in 1982. For most of his teaching career, he was professor of sociology at Minot State University in North Dakota. After retiring from MSU in 2008, Dr. Ellis accepted a two-year visiting professorship at the University of Malaya in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, where he conducted research. Now semi-retired, he continues conducting research and authoring articles and books including Handbook of Crime Correlates and Handbook of Social Status Correlates. Anthony Hoskin is an Associate Professor of Sociology at Idaho State University. He received his PhD in Sociology in 1999 at the Sate University of New York in Albany, and has taught at universities in Pennsylvania, California, and Texas before returning to Pocatello, Idaho, his hometown. Professor Hoskin has published research on a variety of social topics, with most of it centered around the causes of crime and interpersonal violence. Malini Ratnasingam completed her doctoral studies at the University of Sheffield, United Kingdom. She spent most of her career teaching social psychology at the University of Malaya until 2015. Since then, she has been teaching in the psychology program and pursuing various research interests at Heriot-Watt University in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
Author
Consulting Research Author, California, USA
Associate Professor of Criminology, Department of Sociology, Social Work, and Criminology, Idaho State University, Pocatello, ID, USA
Heriot-Watt University Malaysia, Putrajaya,Malaysia
Content
1. Conceptualizing and Measuring Social Status2. Demographic Factors3. Family and Peer Factors4. Personality and Behavioral Factors5. Attitudes, Beliefs, and Preferences6. Cognitive and Intellectual Factors7. Mental Health and Illnesses8. Physical Health and Illnesses9. Biological Factors10. Epilogue