SOC239H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Social Inequality, Peer Pressure, Consumerism
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Conrad"s aricle (3-4 quesions from aricle) social construcion of illness. Chapter 2 (epidemiological transiion pg 20; pg26 ; pg27/28 social determinence of health; pg31 pop health model, components of the model; pg 39 obesity case study) Main arguments and concepts only; don"t need to worry about staisics. Chapter 3 ( pg50 age determinence of heath/ signiicance; pg53 sex and gender; 54 gender diference in health; pg61 race and ethnicity variaion in helath; pg64 aboriginal people; 67 health immigrant efect) How to measure: always have highest 10% and lowest 10%. The diference between high and low will tell inequality: living in diferent community gives diferent experience: ie. rich vs poor, poverty line determines poverty neighbourhood: If 20% or more in poverty, then poor neighbourhood: income based poverty: Wealth inequality greater than income: inequality of access to resource, opportuniies. Correlates: problems of rich have become problems of the poor, why do equal socieies do beter.
