SOC363H1 Chapter : SOC363 – Week 1 Reading – The Stress Process Revisited.docx
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Soc363 week 1 reading the stress process revisited the stress process: represents an attempt to give some conceptual organization to the diverse lines of research underway conditions that regulate stress are highly complex and variable. Packaging of low statuses can also lead to more stress: ex. being colored and poor. Often composed of people whose key statuses are similar: experience similar hardships and respond to these hardships n similar ways w/ similar resources. Ambient stressors because neighborhoods surround daily life. Physical state of neighborhood can alaso lead to stress. High residential turnover also leads to stress because people feel as if they are living among strangers the neighborhood context is likely to have the greatest effect on elders and children because they leave neighborhoods less often. Stressors: risk of exposure varies with social and economic characteristics of people coping mechanisms also vary with social and economic characteristics of people.
