SOCIOL 2RR3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Palpitations, Sleep Deprivation, Mass Incarceration
7 May 2019
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Sdh: working conditions affect your health, working conditions meaning, hours bc u have to work so many hours it limits capacity to invest time in other aspects of your life. March 25: no time for cooking fast food, wage. Psychological distress stress effects your hormones which affects your health. If your hormones are out u can gain a lot of weight or lose it. Stress effects hormonal balance: can"t poo or pee ibs, heart palpitations. Jim crow: mass incarceration, war on drugs, how ones racial position shapes their opportunities or life choices. 2 major discussions of health: problems of health and inequality mental health. If its known you have a mental illness inds won"t be comfortable assoc w you. Stigma: mental health as problem as security (how other inds view them) Problem of risk and violence: mental health act protects inds w mental health conditions.
