[Social inequality, illness risk and life expectancy: criticism of social epidemiological injustice research].

The inquiry of the association between social class and illness/life expectancy lacks as well on theory orientated conceptualization of the complex causal chain from social inequality to individual consequences as on differentiation of each of its links. In order to eliminate these deficits a hierarchical multidimensional process model will be introduced, in which the position in the system of social inequality (macro dimension) is connected with the dimension of social action (meso dimension, esp. family and professional context) and this again with the dimension of the individual (micro dimension: personality/organism) in different stages of the life course.