PSYC23H3 Study Guide - Final Guide: Dorsal Nucleus Of Vagus Nerve, Infant Mortality, Romanian Orphans
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Regulating biology of social identity, pair bonding, health, reproduction: discrimination/criminalization. Hypotheses attachment, knowledge, scarce resources, etc. Foucault describes biopower as a knowledge-power relation in which life becomes the object of political strategy. A productive power, biopower seeks control of life and the biological processes of man as species and of ensuring that they are not disciplined but regularized, concerning itself with the governing of the life processes of populations. Clear example of ses health disparity relationship: where british civil servants categorized as administrators, directors, staff, secretaries, so on; administrators running operation had least health problems and were living the longest. Health care access was controlled for: put question more for psychologist interest, it was some kind of psychological stress that could be driving ses health disparities. With subjective ladder (recall) where people"s own self report of their ses also was highly predictive of where they were on ses gradient.
