FRHD 3090 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Birth Weight

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Family Relations and Human Development
• Course: FRHD 3090
• Professor: Michelle Preyde

Document Summary

Chapter 4 the life course, the social gradient, and health. Life-course perspective on health and its social determinants sees a person"s biological status as a marker of their past social position, and, through structured nature of social processes, as liable to selective accumulation of future advantage or disadvantage. Person"s past social experiences become written into physiology and pathology of their body. Social is literally, embodied; and the body records past. Life course may be regarded as combining biological and social elements which interact with each other. Individual biological development takes place within social context which structures life chances so that advantages and disadvantages tend to cluster cross-sectionally and accumulate longitudinally. Cross-sectionally, adv or disadv in one sphere of life likely to be accompanied by similar adv and disadv in other spheres. Person whose working environment is free of hazards likely to reside in good-quality housing, live in area of little air pollution, and have income that permits varied diet.