[SOC363H1] - Midterm Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam (20 pages long!)
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**will be tested on both lecture material and readings** Social inequality includes statuses and roles with structured differences in access to resources and opportunities: Including: social class, race, gender, age, marital status, nativity, also intersections ie combinations of the aforementioned characteristics. Emotional inequality is a persistent difference in the population in the experience of both negative and positive emotions and expressive behaviour including: Depression, anxiety, panic, anger, substance use and abuse, well-being, happiness. A subjective marker that reflects the meaning of social environments as experienced by individuals exposed to those environments. Mental health is a good indicator of the emotional status of individuals in environments. Looking at mental health as a signal of where mental illness comes from ie. origin. Environments (school, home etc) can lead to benign or disruptive influence. People are interested in the emotional well being of the individuals.
