SOCI 335 Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: Longitudinal Study, Data Set, Nuance Communications

• School: McGill University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOCI 335
• Professor: Aniruddha Bobby Das

Document Summary

Cumulative disadvantage: we accumulate disadvantages based on ses throughout the life course, which affects health later on. Cumulative exposure: the rate of accumulation throughout the life course: childhood poverty leads to cumulative disadvantage in health regardless of later-life exposure to poverty. Traditional cumulative disadvantage theory (the hayward & gorman model: long-term poverty affects health partly indirectly, by speed-up cumulative disadvantage in health the channeling process. Speeds up the widening of the health gap between ses groups over lifetime. Cumulative exposure theory: long-term poverty has a direct health impact (as in fundamental cause theory), but no indirect impact through the cumulation process. General topic: examining the theory of cumulative disadvantage. Data set: panel study of income dynamics (psid) Results support cumulative advantage theory, whereby over-time compounding of early (dis)advantages produces trajectories of health that diverge with age. Cumulative advantage, bounded partly by forces of senescence (vaupel 2010) convergence later life attrition bias. Nuance: evidence for cumulative exposure, potential for future research.