SOC243H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Childhood Obesity, Social Network, Deskilling
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Social structure: enduring and relatively stable patterns of relationship between individuals/groups that typically lead to stratification i. e. unequal distribution of valued goods or holdings in a population that constrains choices of some, and enables others. Low position in the structure (e. g. poverty) stress proliferation illness. There is more ways that social structure gets under the skin than stress. Freud talks about bioagency: capacity for self-initiating and organizing biological processes, such as motor activity and activities in the internal biological milieu (for ex, blood pressure) Agency as an interplay of choices and chances influencing lifestyles. Uncertainty to the extent choices will constrain what is available to us. We need to dwell on those choices; you control your health to some extent; but there are small things that we can"t lose sight of e. g. tax incentives. The act of being scared can be physical, but also mental. Direct: child welfare system; judicial, health and mental health systems.
