SOC318H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Visible Minority, Intersectionality, Alcoholism
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Outline: prevalence and distress big question: does lower status = distress, prevalence and socioeconomic status, why explaining relationships. How to discuss social status influence in the spm. Last 20 minutes of class will be review: she will post a guide online to help us study, test questions will for the most part come from the guide. For next week, you can drop the milkie 2019 reading on time deficits. Younger people have more disorder than older people. How do we measure it: community surveys / samples, cidi international assessment, symptom based questions longitudinally, ways we measure symptoms. Sociologists don"t like the word disorder" because it is a spectrum. Lifetime vs. 12-month period: about 20% have has enough symptoms to call it a disorder over the past year, over a lifetime, it is 1 in 2. Co-morbidity and multiple disorders: a lot of people that have one problem have others in conjunction, ex: alcoholism and depression.
