SOC 322LEC Study Guide - Spring 2018, Comprehensive Midterm Notes - Medicine, Socioeconomic Status, Primary Care
12 Oct 2018
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SOC 322LEC
MIDTERM EXAM
STUDY GUIDE
Fall 2018
Course notes:
- Film review is due 4/30/18
- Issues brief on UBLearns… w/ ideas, annotated bibliography details
- ASA style guide for references
- Follow guidelines to a T! They will be strictly followed. Use peer-reviewed journals
- Tests m.c. 39 questions, quiz questions
Defining health
World health organization def → state of complete physical, mental, and social well being and
not merely the absence of injury or disease
- Not many of us are “totally healthy”
Laypersons view health as the capacity to carry out their daily activities
- Health as the ability to function
- Health varies throughout a person’s life (20 yr is diff from 70 yr)
Readings:
- Health, illness and risk are not evenly distributed - they are socially patterned
- Based on income, education, gender, age, race, beliefs, stress, etc.
- Loneliness and health
- Loneliness has been linked to depression, alzheimer’s, accelerated cancer
progression, chronic inflammation, suppressed immune function, elevated levels
of norepinephrine in the blood, early death
- Some research states loneliness is on track to surpass obesity as the greatest
health risk
Have smartphones destroyed a generation:
Trends presented:
- Increased social media → depression and feelings of social isolation.
- Social media replaces face-to-face contact, FOMO, constantly there, more time
spent on phone than w/ family, when social interactions happen - those involved
are more interested in their phones than the person right in front of them. “Best
version of themselves”
- Teens are most vulnerable to negative effects
- They’re still learning how to have great relationships, how to date, eye-
contacts, etc.
- Massive generational shift, starting in 2012, more than ½ people in country had
smartphone, in how people spend their time, navigate relationships, view the
world
- Corresponds with dramatic increase in depression, anxiety, suicide ideation and
attempts, sleep deprivation
- Opioid crisis can see parallels here
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❖ Relationships are rarely simple. Social factors interact w/ health and illness in complex
and layered ways.
❖ Disease is often socially produced and patterned. So is our response to it.
The development of medical soc.
- Most early works were written by physicians focused on the connections between social
conditions and health
- Early sociologist did not give much attention to matters of health and medicine
- First use of med soc
- Charles mcintire (1894) importance of social factors for health
- First piece written form a sociological perspective
- 1927 bernard stem
- Federal government steps in after wwii
- More funding for research in medical field.. Cdc, nih
- Early funding → emphasis on applied research
- Under nimh
- Connection between sociology and medicine was initially rooted in psychiatry
- urban/rural residence associated w mental illness
- Connections between social factors and mental health established
- Becoming a sub-discipline
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