Sociology 1020 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Population Model, Binge Drinking, Social Influence
10 Apr 2020
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Sociology 1020 : reading notes - week 5. 15. 1 - how do social contexts affect health. Sociologists believe that we need to think not just about individuals but entire populations when it comes to health. Rose argued in the 1980s that we could save more lives by decreasing everyone"s blood pressure a little bit than by reducing the blood pressure of the most high-risk cases. Focuses on shifting the whole distribution of risk. Ex. chain restaurants required to list the number of calories in each item. Social contexts and relationships help to determine the health choices we make. Sought to understand how suicide rates differ across social groups and how social change affected rates of suicide. Affected by religion, gender, organizations (military), living in certain areas. Durkheim found that both living in close-knit communities and disconnected communities contributed to high suicide rates. If something seems to be normal or socially sanctioned we are more like to participate (ex.
