ANT208H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Whitehall Study, Genetic Predisposition, Group Cohesiveness
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Stress, social inequality, and race and ethnicity: implications for health. We can define it from a biological standpoint. How it impacts our health: affects our sleep pattern, getting sick. Stressors and how it ties into the things that cause us to be stressed. Factors that mediate stress: mediate- intervene and adjust what happens, moderate- decrease the extent of the stress response and that can vary depending the person. Can be social factors, talking to someone, immerse themselves in work. Stressor: anything that activates/ elicits a stress response (usually threats to survival or reproduction) The allostasis model of stress (mcewan 2002: allostasis. The normal range for a physiological system varies by circumstances in an adaptive fashion. We have a normal body temperature, but when we are sick our bodies will rise in temperatures. It is normal for a person who has an infection to have an elevated body temperature. Takes homeostatis to another degree: allostatic load.
