SOC363H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Ibm Officevision, Feminist Theory, Selection Bias
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Jarvis report (1855) on lunacy and poverty, based on medical and clerical reports, and local leaders in towns: chances for opportunistic labeling in this study. Still: reports that the rate of lunacy per 1,000 population was 65/1000 in the pauper class, and only 1/1000 in the independent class. The first known attempt to relate class to mental health. Faris and dunham (1939: hollingshead and redlich new haven study(1957) These two are about rates of prevalence among clinical people. Social class patterns in distress of a scale score: meta analysis can be a poor way to look at data. Ses can show how persistent a disorder may be and show the causal role of ses. We reach out less because over time the stress becomes too much for the support system to handle: are the stressful life changes in these studies patterned or random, harder to link stressful life events with ses.
