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Further along in this book the authors begin using the terms social status. Social status thus determines who is at risk for drug addiction, depression; in short, mental illness. 

What is missing is the concept of race as a social construct. How can a society become more equal by simply addressing economic issues when people are relegated to the bottoms by their very existence? The anxieties the authors point out are not only due to a lack of status on the social ladder in terms of…