SOC364H1 Lecture Notes - Male Unemployment, High School Dropouts, Social Inequality
Document Summary
Limitations of epidemiology: biophysiologic reductionism, absorption by biomedicine, lack of theory development, limitations of dichotomous thinking, risk factorology, association versus causality, dogmatism by design. Focuses on disease states and on factors that predispose people to, are associated with, or increase the chance of entering into a disease state. Focuses on health as the degree to which an individual is capable of achieving an existential equilibrium. After decades of risks medical research, only know 18% of the risk factors. Just as every epoch has its own health challenges, so too must each epoch dev elop research methods appropriate to its problems . Aggregate ses, female- headed households , youth high school dropouts, male unemployment, aggregate disorder. Social inequality prevalent across neighbourhoods and growing. Concentrated disadvantage does matter (segregation, low income, lone parents, disorder) Most focus on traditional american city, using block faces or poverty census tracts. Social capital, networks, strong ties, real and perceived social support.
