SOCL 4451 Final: all semester notes
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Unit 1 the social causation of health and disease. What causes health: cockerham states that the public widely recognizes that social factors influence health. Hughes (2003), learning to smoke: 5 stages of smoking, becoming a smoker. 2: summary, when smokers ran out of people to smoke with, they quit, social interactions increasingly regular smoking high probability of disease. Not something in our social lives: popularity stems from effectiveness in treating infectious diseases, drugs and drug-based techniques for variety of diseases, however, effectiveness may be overstated. Causation operates in a one-way, upward direction and seems incapable of acting back to influence individuals: therefore medicine cannot just focus on a virus and drug, but must increasingly address the whole person, example: income and low birth-weight. Fundamental cause theory (link & phelan: social conditions are fundamental causes of disease, for social factors to qualify as fundamental cause: Influence disease through multiple pathways: be reproduced over time.
