Social Class

"Social Class" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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A stratum of people with similar position and prestige; includes social stratification. Social class is measured by criteria such as education, occupation, and income.

Descriptor ID	D012923
MeSH Number(s)	I01.880.853.996.755 N01.824.782
Concept/Terms	Social Class Social Class Class, Social Classes, Social Social Classes Socioeconomic Status Socioeconomic Status Status, Socioeconomic Middle Class Population Middle Class Population Class Population, Middle Class Populations, Middle Middle Class Populations Population, Middle Class Populations, Middle Class Caste Caste Castes

Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more general than "Social Class".

Anthropology, Education, Sociology and Social Phenomena [I]
Social Sciences [I01]
Sociology [I01.880]
Sociological Factors [I01.880.853]
Socioeconomic Factors [I01.880.853.996]
Social Class [I01.880.853.996.755]
Health Care [N]
Population Characteristics [N01]
Socioeconomic Factors [N01.824]
Social Class [N01.824.782]

Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is related to "Social Class".

Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more specific than "Social Class".

Social Class
Social Mobility

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Bar chart showing 53 publications over 21 distinct years, with a maximum of 5 publications in 2008 and 2015

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Year	Major Topic	Minor Topic	Total
1996	1	0	1
1998	0	1	1
1999	0	2	2
2000	0	1	1
2001	0	1	1
2002	1	1	2
2004	0	2	2
2005	1	1	2
2007	0	2	2
2008	1	4	5
2009	0	3	3
2010	1	1	2
2011	1	2	3
2012	1	3	4
2013	2	1	3
2014	2	2	4
2015	2	3	5
2016	0	2	2
2017	1	1	2
2018	2	0	2
2019	3	1	4

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Gur RE, Moore TM, Rosen AFG, Barzilay R, Roalf DR, Calkins ME, Ruparel K, Scott JC, Almasy L, Satterthwaite TD, Shinohara RT, Gur RC. Burden of Environmental Adversity Associated With Psychopathology, Maturation, and Brain Behavior Parameters in Youths. JAMA Psychiatry. 2019 09 01; 76(9):966-975.

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McGrew KM, Peck JD, Vesely SK, Janitz AE, Snider CA, Dougherty TM, Campbell JE. Effect Modification of the Association Between Race and Stage at Colorectal Cancer Diagnosis by Socioeconomic Status. J Public Health Manag Pract. 2019 Sep/Oct; 25 Suppl 5, Tribal Epidemiology Centers: Advancing Public Health in Indian Country for Over 20 Years:S29-S35.

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Waring JJC, Hébert ET, Alexander AC, Kendzor DE, Businelle MS. Evaluating the influences of social support and smoking cues on daily smoking abstinence among socioeconomically disadvantaged adults. Addict Behav. 2020 01; 100:106107.

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Alexander AC, Hébert ET, Businelle MS, Kendzor DE. Greater perceived importance of earning abstinence-contingent incentives is associated with smoking cessation among socioeconomically disadvantaged adults. Addict Behav. 2019 08; 95:202-205.

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McDermott CL, Seidlitz J, Nadig A, Liu S, Clasen LS, Blumenthal JD, Reardon PK, Lalonde F, Greenstein D, Patel R, Chakravarty MM, Lerch JP, Raznahan A. Longitudinally Mapping Childhood Socioeconomic Status Associations with Cortical and Subcortical Morphology. J Neurosci. 2019 02 20; 39(8):1365-1373.

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Martinez SA, Beebe LA, Thompson DM, Wagener TL, Terrell DR, Campbell JE. A structural equation modeling approach to understanding pathways that connect socioeconomic status and smoking. PLoS One. 2018; 13(2):e0192451.

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Baker KK, Padhi B, Torondel B, Das P, Dutta A, Sahoo KC, Das B, Dreibelbis R, Caruso B, Freeman MC, Sager L, Panigrahi P. From menarche to menopause: A population-based assessment of water, sanitation, and hygiene risk factors for reproductive tract infection symptoms over life stages in rural girls and women in India. PLoS One. 2017; 12(12):e0188234.

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Talavera DC, Paulus DJ, Garza M, Ochoa-Perez M, Lemaire C, Valdivieso J, Bogiaizian D, Robles Z, Bakhshaie J, Manning K, Walker R, Businelle M, Zvolensky MJ. Subjective social status and rumination in relation to anxiety and depressive symptoms and psychopathology among economically disadvantaged Latinos in primary care. Am J Orthopsychiatry. 2018; 88(2):169-179.

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Mishra A, Nizammuddin S, Mallick CB, Singh S, Prakash S, Siddiqui NA, Rai N, Carlus SJ, Sudhakar DVS, Tripathi VP, Möls M, Kim-Howard X, Dewangan H, Mishra A, Reddy AG, Roy B, Pandey K, Chaubey G, Das P, Nath SK, Singh L, Thangaraj K. Genotype-Phenotype Study of the Middle Gangetic Plain in India Shows Association of rs2470102 with Skin Pigmentation. J Invest Dermatol. 2017 03; 137(3):670-677.

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Ramakrishnan U, Gonzalez-Casanova I, Schnaas L, DiGirolamo A, Quezada AD, Pallo BC, Hao W, Neufeld LM, Rivera JA, Stein AD, Martorell R. Prenatal supplementation with DHA improves attention at 5 y of age: a randomized controlled trial. Am J Clin Nutr. 2016 10; 104(4):1075-1082.

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