SOC102H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Health Equity, Married People, Intersectionality
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Soc102h1 - lecture 8 : health inequality i. Access and quality of available health care. As the text outlines, there is an additional area sociologists consider when explaining social inequalities in health: social-psychological resources. Not just disadvantage but the perception or awareness of disadvantage leads to poor health. Meaningful relationship between what happens with people and how they perceive it. While behaviours, choices and lifestyles are the most common explanations for health inequality, these are related to material condition and resources. Conditions in where you live (proximity and access to healthy food) matter for health. In other words, your agency is linked to your social location and the context within which you live. Agency is the ability to act freely in order to bring about a desired result. Meaningful relationship between material resources and agency. Context in which you live in affect your decisions. Poverty people have less choices vs privilege more options/accessible.
