SOC363H1 Final: STUDY PACKAGE.docx- complete study package
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Final exam explain difference between mental health as independent and dependent variable. Test: reproduce them: applications to real life. Ses & neighbourhood effects secondary stressors: most empirically proven model in sociology of mental health, all lead to coping mechanisms social support, mastery, sense of control. Important for understanding how things are interconnected and why people experience different levels of stress. Conceptual frameworks/models: why do social scientists use conceptual models or frameworks, organizes concepts & their interrelationships, provides a visual image of testable claims. Testable means verified (or rejected) with empirical evidence; hypotheses and causal ordering: co: what is chain of events that causes health outcome, allows for replication, extension, and revision, outcomes of social status, primary and secondary stressors, etc. Conceptualization multiple factors: not just one outcome. Psychologists look at mental health as outcome of individual pathology something wrong chemically in brain or with biology: tend to focus on one outcome e. g. what is cause of bipolar.
