SOC363H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Leg Before Wicket, Anxiety Disorder, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
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Social contexts are common memberships and social units shared with other: layers of social realities in which we are embedded, common exposure to a certain thing. Members are exposed to the same inputs: same boundary definitions, membership is contained by the boundaries. Importance of social contexts: invisible causation bypasses consciousness. All social contexts in your lives, have a profile and history in these contexts. Can"t reason this causation and can"t sense that it is different than others because it is common. Don"t sense the intervention that helps or hurts us could make things worse: re-locates causation away from the individual to the social environment. When we talk about causation of mental health problems. What individuals represent are a representation of the contexts they were exposed to: the remote source of the problems we sense at the individual level social contexts influence our lives. Shift probabilities for the things we experience as stressors.
