Overview
Description
Analysis of the social determinants of health, including the way in which social structure produces varying patterns of health and illness.
Requirements
Prerequisites
- General Education courses (CO1-CO3) completed
- at least 3 courses from CO4-CO8 completed
- Junior or Senior standing
SOC 101
Original catalog text
Prerequisites
General Education courses (CO1-CO3) completed; at least 3 courses from CO4-CO8 completed; Junior or Senior standing; SOC 101.
Units
Lecture3
Catalog Details
Offering
Offered: Every Spring - Even Years
Terms
spring
Core
CO13
Restrictions
Junior or Senior standing
Attributes
Standard
Learning Outcomes
- outline inequalities in the distribution of physical health and illnesses in U.S. society according to social class, race, ethnicity, and gender.
- describe, apply, compare, and contrast theoretical explanations of social inequalities in the distribution of physical health illnesses.
- describe and apply stress process theory to explain how exposure to stressors and access to resources is rooted in society’s social structure, and how it in turn affects physical health and illness.
- describe and explain, using a variety of theoretical explanations, how institutional life such as at work, in religious settings, and in neighborhoods, is related to physical health and illness.
- discuss and illustrate the concept of medicalization using examples of socially constructed physical illness and analyze the social forces driving this phenomenon.