{"id":273,"date":"2007-09-04T21:40:00","date_gmt":"2007-09-05T03:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/2007\/09\/04\/football-players-rockers-and-the-ses-gradient\/"},"modified":"2007-09-04T21:40:00","modified_gmt":"2007-09-05T03:40:00","slug":"football-players-rockers-and-the-ses-gradient","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/2007\/09\/04\/football-players-rockers-and-the-ses-gradient\/","title":{"rendered":"football players, rockers, and the SES gradient"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>a journal of epidemiology and community health<\/em> study<\/a> shows high rates of early death among musicians. the sample was drawn from the ranks of especially successful<\/em> musicians — those playing on the top 1000 best-selling albums. i’d hypothesize that a comparison of musicians and non-musicians in a sample taken from the general population would reveal much smaller differences. that is, casual or frustrated rockers likely live longer than successful rockers.<\/p>\n

<\/div>\n

<\/p>\n

one might make sense of this in terms of exposure to risk factors such as substance use, stds, and roadfood. where else might one expect a positive relationship between professional success and mortality? certainly one sees high rates of early death and health problems among professional football players<\/a> and wrestlers, due in part to weight-related ailments. <\/div>\n

<\/p>\n

<\/div>\n
kids still grow up dreaming about becoming rock stars and pro football players, of course, but i would imagine that their fallback\/safety jobs are almost always better for their long-term health. if one buys the argument that the most serious and persistent criminal offenders are most likely to be incarcerated, mike massoglia’s<\/a> work has shown a similar gradient for deviant work: those incarcerated as young adults are subject to serious health deficits by midlife.<\/div>\n

<\/p>\n

<\/div>\n
for a morbid take on the musician\/health study, you might try the which dead rock star are you?<\/em><\/a> <\/em>quiz. according to said quiz, i share certain characteristics with the deceased king of rock and roll pictured above. <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

a journal of epidemiology and community health study shows high rates of early death among musicians. the sample was drawn from the ranks of especially successful musicians — those playing on the top 1000 best-selling albums. i’d hypothesize that a comparison of musicians and non-musicians in a sample taken from the general population would reveal […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=273"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}