SOC243H1 : (week5-7) STUDY PACKAGE SOC243.docx
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Stress processes (an introduction: hierarchical social position and health. Focuses on socioeconomic status (occupational status mixed with education and income: useful summary for some things, but research shows that different socioeconomic statuses have different associations, i. e. education associated stronger with other relations, income other relations. Status one form: occupational status (people who are high statuses, like doctors, politicians) Issues related to specification of socioeconomic position, i. e. is education a continuous or ordinal measure. Continuous a rational scale, can use it so every single year of education has a different effect. Because older people retire, and income comes from job. Maybe it"s just having less money in some places (but clearly the poor who are really hit hard, like first nations population) A lot of place have a poverty line (they fall above and below the line) But canada doesn"t have a poverty line (they have low income cut offs)
