Toward Some Fundamentals of Fundamental Causality: Socioeconomic Status and Health in the Routine Clinic Visit for Diabetes

Lutfey, Karen; Freese, Jeremy

doi:10.1086/428914

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“…Evidence presented for the theory includes evidence of SES and health for causes of death that have become preventable and the absence of such relationships when causes are absent (Link and Phelan 1995;Lutfey and Freese 2005). Meanwhile, strong socioeconomic gradients in diseases that preceded accurate understanding of their causes or prevention, such as what existed in Britain during early cholera outbreaks (e.g., Johnson 2006), would indicate some need to amend thinking.…”

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Replication in Social Science

Freese¹,

Peterson²

2017

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Across the medical and social sciences, new discussions about replication have been transforming research practices. Sociologists, however, have been largely absent from these discussions. The goals of this review are to introduce sociologists to these developments, synthesize insights from science studies about replication in general, and detail the specific issues regarding replication that occur in sociology.The first half of the article argues that a sociologically sophisticated understanding of replication must take into account both the ways that replication rules and conventions evolved within an epistemic culture and how those cultures are shaped by specific research challenges. The second half outlines the four main dimensions of replicability in quantitative sociology-verifiability, robustness, repeatability, and generalizability-and discusses the specific ambiguities of interpretation that can arise in each. We conclude by advocating some commonsense changes to promote replication while acknowledging the epistemic diversity of our field.

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Replication in Social Science

Freese¹,

Peterson²

2017

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“…The assertion that socioeconomic status is a "fundamental cause" of diet-related health disparities is supported by a body of epidemiological research showing that diet quality and diet-related health disparities among adults and adolescents in the United States follow a socioeconomic gradient (Lutfey and Freese 2005;Darmon and Drewnowski 2008;Phelan, Link, and Tehranifar 2010;Kant and Graubard 2013;Wang et al 2014). Scholarship examining the origins of these disparities highlights important structural determinants of diet, including differential access to healthy that mothers should spend extensive time and energy cultivating children and tending to their needs (Hayes 1998).…”

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A Taste of Inequality: Food's Symbolic Value across the Socioeconomic Spectrum

Fielding‐Singh¹

2017

SocScience

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Scholars commonly account for dietary disparities across socioeconomic status (SES) using structural explanations that highlight differences in individuals' wealth, income, or location. These explanations emphasize food's material value. But food also carries symbolic value. This article shows how food's symbolic value helps drive dietary disparities. In-depth interviews with 160 parents and adolescents and 80 hours of observations with four families demonstrate how a family's socioeconomic position in part shapes the meanings that parents attach to food. These differing meanings contribute to distinct feeding strategies across the socioeconomic spectrum: whereas low-SES parents use food to buffer against deprivation, high-SES parents provision food to fulfill classed values around health and parenting. The findings suggest that an understanding of how families' material circumstances shape food's symbolic value is critical to fully account for dietary differences across SES.

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“…We had no access to smoking rates. Poor health behaviors, such as smoking, may impact individuals through their social networks and socioeconomic status (Lutfey et al, 2005). Although we 16 accounted for socioeconomic status in the analyses, some residual confounding most likely exists in the measurement of socioeconomic conditions.…”

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Linking social capital and mortality in the elderly: A Swedish national cohort study

Sundquist

Hamano

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Experimental Gerontology

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Objectives Our objective was to examine the association between neighborhood linking social capital (a concept describing the amount of trust between individuals and societal institutions) and all-cause and cause-specific mortality in the elderly. DesignThe entire Swedish population aged 65+, a total of 1,517,336 men and women, was followed from 1 January 2002 until death, emigration, or the end of the study on 31December 2010. Small geographic units were used to define neighborhoods. The definition of linking social capital was based on neighborhood voting participation rates, categorized into three groups. Multilevel logistic regression was used to estimate odds ratios (ORs) and between-neighborhood variance in three different models. ResultsThe results showed an overall association between linking social capital and allcause mortality. The significant OR of 1.53 in the group with low linking social capital decreased, but remained significant (OR = 1.27), after accounting for age, sex, family income, marital status, country of birth, education level, and region of residence. There were also significant associations between linking social capital and cause-specific mortality in coronary heart disease, psychiatric disorders, cancer, stroke, chronic lower respiratory diseases, type 2 diabetes, and suicide. ConclusionThere are associations between low linking social capital and mortality from chronic disorders and suicide in the elderly population. Community support for elderly people living in neighborhoods with low levels of linking social capital may need to be strengthened.

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Toward Some Fundamentals of Fundamental Causality: Socioeconomic Status and Health in the Routine Clinic Visit for Diabetes

Cited by 304 publications

References 71 publications

Replication in Social Science

Replication in Social Science

A Taste of Inequality: Food's Symbolic Value across the Socioeconomic Spectrum

Linking social capital and mortality in the elderly: A Swedish national cohort study

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