SOC 230 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Moral Authority, Epidemiological Transition, Ontogeny
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What are the key differences between the integration perspective and the social psychological. Perspective: social psych = how our perceptions of our social network affect our health (downstream factors) Stress models: biological/medical: stress reaction is independent of "expected" effects. Syndrome: socio-medical: social events in life are physio stressors and can lead to illness. Like death of spouse has a risk value of 100. In industrialized countries, chronic diseases have increasing replaced acute infectious diseases as the major cause of disability and death: how can social support be social psychological, buffer of stress if you perceive that you are getting support. Social psychological summary: level of organization: social psychological, cause: mechanism or function (depending, time: ontogenetic or momentary (depending, point of view: subjective. However, after a few months, the animals will lose their resistance and get the symptoms again: this is the 3rd stage of the syndrome. Informational(referring a doctor to someone else, recommending a good restaurant: emotional(therapy, caring friend, understanding)
