SOC102H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Ceteris Paribus, Infant Mortality, Relative Deprivation
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Longitudinal studies follow the group of people over a course of time. Stress from spousal death and bereavement weakens the immune system. Most famous inequality study is the whitehall studies. All studies use ceteris paribus everything else constant. People prefer to be blind to consequences of inequalities. Problem of difficulty in proposing policies and data that are suitable to convince the public, because ensuring equity is expensive. Richard wilkinson equalitytrust. org. uk researcher of inequality. Slope of 1: for every standard deviation of change in inequality, there is a standard deviation of change in infant mortality. Diagram of infant mortality and inequality: outliers are usa and singapore. Singapore provides extremely good amenities hence the vey low imr. Usa on the other hand has poor social services. Southern europeans have high alcohol consumption rates so should not be that low on the graph.
