GGR353H5 Chapter Notes -Group Cohesiveness, Social Inequality, Social Stratification
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Probs b/c limited access to sources of emotional support, instrumental support (for example. No one would dispute that poverty is bad for health. In general, the lower the material standard of living the worse is the level of health, whether measured by morality, morbidity, or quality of life. The maldistribution of income was related not only to total morality but also to infant mortality, homicides, and death from cardiovascular disease and neoplasms. Mechanisms underlying this relation include psychologically harmful effect. Social rewards cannot be made fully acceptable to the less privileged in a society, social stratification systems function to encourage hostility, suspicion and distrust and limit the possibilities of extensive integration. Narrowing of income differentials was accompanied by a greater sense of solidarity and social cohesion. Social cohesion enhances wellbeing is by now a well established fact. Socially isolated people die at two to three times the rate of well connected people financial aid), and other forms of support.
