LESSON PLAN ON

SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS
SCALE

SUBMITTED TO: MRS. JAYA MATHEW

VICE PRINCIPAL
TMM COLLEGE OF NURSING
SUBMITTED BY: ELSY MAYJO
IST YEAR MSC NURSING
 TMM COLLEGE OF NURSING

COURSE : MSc NURSING

PLACEMENT : 1ST YEAR
SUBJECT : NURSING EDUCATION
UNIT : IV
TOPIC : SOCIO-ECONOMIC STATUS SCALE
VENUE : MSc NURSING CLASSROOM
DATE AND TIME : 06/04/2024 ,12.00-12.20 PM
NUMBER OF STUDENTS :5
METHOD OF TEACHING : LECTURE -CUM DISCUSSION
TEACHING AIDS : PPT, CHARTS , PAMLETS, VIDEO, FLIPCHARTS ,
PREVIOUS KNOWLEDGE OF STUDENTS : THE STUDENTS HAD SOME KNOWLEDGE REGRADING
SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS
OF THE SOCIETY
GENERAL OBJECTIVE:

At the end of teaching session, the students will be able to understand about the socio-economic status scale and
apply this in community health settings with positive attitude .
SPECIFIC OBJECTIVE:

At the end of teaching session, the students will be able to:

 Introduce socioeconomic status scale
 Define socioeconomic status scale
 Know the need of sociometry scale
 Identify the purposes of sociometry
 Recognises uses of sociometry
 List out the advantages of sociometry
 Discuss the sociometry test
 Explain the importance of sociometry scale
 Discuss the method analysis
 Explain the area that sociometry can be apply
 Discuss the limitation of sociometry
 SPECIFIC CONTENT TEACHING AV EVALUATI
OBJECTIVE LEARNING AIDS ON
ACTIVITY
1min Introduce INTRODUCTION: The teacher
socioeconomic The socioeconomic status (SES) is one of the important factors affecting the introduces the
status scale health condition of an individual or a family. topic by a
The economic and social position relatively is being determined by video, students
various variables that are responsible for income, education, occupation, watching
family effluence, physical assets, social position, social participation, carefully.
caste, political influence, and muscle power and can be measured by
SES. It is used to identify the economic status of the society. The
scale is used in many community – based studies.
1min The students DEFINITION:
should be able o Socioeconomic status refers to “an individual’s position within a
to define hierarchical social structure, which is one of the important determinants of
socioeconomic health status and vital aspect in community – based studies.
status o A way of describing people based on their education, income, and
type of job. Socioeconomic status is usually described as low, medium,
and high.
o Socioeconomic status is an economic and sociological combined total
measure of a person’s work experience and of an individuals or family’s
economic and social position in relation to others, based on income,
education, and occupation.
o Socioeconomic status is one of the most important social determinants of
health and disease, thus, widely studied constructs in the social sciences.

2min The students SCALES:

are able to list Usually composites scales are used to measure SES, which has a combination
out the various of social and economic variables. several ways of measuring SES have been
socioeconomic suggested for categorizing different rural and urban populations in last
scales decades.
Several scales are proposed and reported to evaluate the socioeconomic
classes of families in specific circumstances, such as in urban or rural setting:
 Rahudkar scale 1960,
 Jalota scale 1970,
 Udai Pareekh scale 1964,
 Kuppuswamy scale 1976,