SOCIOL 3630 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Allostatic Load, Adrenal Gland, Autonomic Nervous System
13 Mar 2018
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State one: response to situation: alarm (sympathetic branch of autonomic nervous system is activated: adrenal glands release cortisol. State two: deal with situation: action/adaption: parasympathetic ns of the ans counteracts the changes in stage one. State three: exhaustion/aftermath: depleted resources during stage two, stress process. Life events: chronic strains, appraisal (perception, interpretation, mediators. Social resources: coping techniques, outcomes, bad physical/mental health, mortality. Social patterning in all of the above: stress comes from everywhere, various sociological levels, macro level: the economy, political unrest (durkheim - studied suicide, effects of unhealthy society, emile durkheim: patterns of suicide. Social "integration" within social networks: the effect of social support on stress and stress outcomes, two views, main effect model: social supports contributes directly to well being. Social patterning: ses: exposure hypothesis - lower ses means, more stressful events, environments, accumulation of stressors over time, neighborhood effects (remember unnatural causes, disorder. Location of industrial wastes: vulnerability of low ses, particular events have greater impact.
