SOCIOL 5629 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Natural Selection, Menopause, Binge Drinking
15 Apr 2018
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Selection bias the healthiest immigrants make it to the us. Substantive reasons: social ties strong social support social isolation is very harmful to your health, health behaviors immigrants eat healthier, smoke and drink less, exercise related occupations, Sex vs gender: sex: biological categories of male and female, gender: social and/or cultural meanings we attach to biological difference masculine vs feminine. However: women spend more years living with disability, certain diseases are more prevalent among women autoimmune, ms, infectious diseases, women at increased risk of disease after menopause cvd. Life expectancy in us higher for women the gap has increased between men and women because of the shift from deaths by infectious diseases to chronic diseases. Social: differential exposure to occupational hazards, contrasting coping styles and mechanisms for dealing with psychosocial stress social support and networks, types of socially sanctioned behaviors that enable access to resource, power, prestige, etc.
