SOC243H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Social Capital, Noxious Stimulus
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Relationship with health and each factor varies, especially with age. But we want to know what social factors are proximal, what is occurring when illness is happening. The issue of causal direction causal vs. selection, reverse causality (health selection, health leads you to select into a specific social group) (causality may be difficult to infer from correlation). Things are getting better for everybody, and the rich receive the benefit first. ) Being poor can cause a 7 year difference in lifespan. Materialist: ex. exposure to physical risks due to inadequate housing, food, etc. Cultural-behavioural patterns of beliefs that influence behaviours (ex. culture of poverty and health) Structural-behavioural: ex. network processes and social shaping (information flow), social capital (neighbourhood trust, commitment, health). Stress processes (an introduction) the poor are getting much worse than everyone else. Stress response: hormone medicated behaviours and physiological reactions elicited by noxious stimuli and threats.
