HLTH260 Study Guide - Final Guide: Bounded Set, Social Capital, Social Integration
6 Aug 2015
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Social integration and effects on well-being who you interact with affects your behaviror. Social networks and health: hypotheses, the richer (larger and denser) your personal networks, the better your physical and mental health because of. Enhanced control over your life prospects: networks discipline members into adhering to norms, beliefs, and values, many of which are potentially health enhancing. Social cohesion: measured through participation in community affairs, the number of community organizations, levels of interpersonal trust, and crime statistics, tied closely to social capital. Similar people will form groups that act to exclude others, usually understood as intra- group solidarity and extra-group hostility: contact theory. As individuals and groups gain experience with those different from themselves, norms of tolerance and co-operation develop. Influences health behaviours by: promoting more rapid diffusion of health information or increasing the likelihood that healthy norms of behaviour are adopted, exerting social control over deviant health-related behaviour.
