BIOL 1361 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: World Health Organization, Unnatural Causes, Homophily
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Organization website you viewed before class: both suggest socio-economic status correlates with health, define, homophily, people gather together because they are similar. If a person has the right resources, he or she can maintain control over the variables in his/her environment. Economic activity that supports other social institutions socialization: participation in social institutions can support a healthier life, but is not without costs. Participating well may require thoughtful adjustments to behavior supported by information seeking and effective communication with co-participants. The disapproval is based on the deviance of behavior or status from normative behaviors or statuses approved by a dominant culture. Example: blacks or african americans were estimated to comprise 12. 5% of texas population on. When we use causal imagery (referring to causes and effects) we use the terms proximate and distal in two different, but related ways. Distal causes are farther back in time than proximate causes are to the effect we observe.
