SOC-S 101 Lecture 8: Why Biology Is Not Enough
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Interplay in complex way - don"t understand 100% Not everyone who dies by suicide has a mental illness. Millions of people with mental illness - 25% Proof of social factors having affect on life/death - give strong evidence to val social issues/factors. If want to understand issues w people (cancers, mental illness, etc) - ne unlock dna. Genome - very complex - 3 billion base pairs. Need to understand how genes affected by environment. Histone - little balls - tightness of wrapping helix around can be af by different social aspects - syf. Methylation - methyl groups can attach on place of wrapping of genome - can trigger characteristic or suppress - meamy. Not interested in genome - interested in what coats genome. Anything that tells you about socio-economic status has effect on health. People who are exposed to lot of stress are more likely to abuse all types.
