SOC 230 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Nuclear Family, Stoicism, Glasser'S Choice Theory
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Puts them at risk for emotional difficulties: what are the broad differences in mortality and morbidity in genders, women live longer but more sick. Opposite for men: what are some reasons to view gender as a separate perspective (i. e. in addition to race, ses, etc, gender is too complex. Men are less likely than women to use mental health services for psychiatric disorders. Gendered responding framework: rests on assumption that masculinity can play role not only in how men respond to depression and to negative affect in general. Sex differences framework: assumes that depression exists as the same illness in men and women, men more likely to anger than sadness. Opposite for women: pre(cid:448)ale(cid:374)(cid:272)e of depressio(cid:374) i(cid:374) (cid:373)e(cid:374) has (cid:271)ee(cid:374) u(cid:374)deresti(cid:373)ated due to (cid:373)e(cid:374)(cid:859)s greater te(cid:374)de(cid:374)(cid:272)(cid:455) to express depression in ways that do not correspond to the dsm. Motivation 3: the gender disparity in health is not fully explicable by other inequalities.
