SOCI 335 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Preventive Healthcare, Bounded Rationality, Human Capital
9 Mar 2016
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Age effect of diabetes: cumulative effect over age; the older you are, the more likely you are to have diabetes; Cohort effect of diabetes: ways to diagnose diabetes varies over cohorts; the incidence of diabetes may vary across cohorts (preventive medicine, etc. ) Example of a period effect (not necessarily for diabetes): nine-eleven (policy structure changes macro-level effects, emotional effects and attitudinal changes micro-level effects) The same event can have both period and cohort effects. Being born into the great depression (less resources) vs. our generation. Examples of socialization agents: institutionalized education, media, friends, peer groups, etc. The idea of population as a social group to regenerate (birth and death) Once you pass adolescence, according to ryder, your ideas and values become static/fixed and you cannot drastically change your values (many debates on this topic today) Individuals do not change very much, so how does society change?demographic metabolism: younger people becoming politically important as they become older.
