SOC363H1 Lecture : SOC363 – Lecture 1 – Social Causes of Stress and Mental Health.docx
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Notion of how social and economic statuses, stressors, neighborhood contexts and moderating resources contribute to stress. Helps to organize concepts and their relationships: visual image of testable claims, allows replication, extension, and revision. Assumption of the stress process considers the relation between diverse factors and how they converge to impact the individual. Not about unusual people doing unusual things: concerns average people. Quintessentially sociological because focuses on the natural origins of mental health outcomes. Gender, age, race: both directly and indirectly influence stress can influence different coping behaviors influence how much stress an individual may have. Onset of the first stressor: temporal. Demand, threat, or constraint that compromises the integrity of an organism: basically anything that puts pressure on an individual, one person may find something stressful that aother does not. A stressor that comes after a primary stressor: temporal. Soc363 lecture 1 social causes of stress and mental health.
