Sociology / Psychology 2 - SEMESTER 1 & 2
- Created by: ggmonkey
- Created on: 10-06-19 20:48
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- Chronic Illness
- Social trends in chronic illness
- Lower classes are more likely to financial difficulties due to their illness
- Manual workers are more likely to give up job
- Crisis approach / labelling theory
- Societal reaction to illness
- Some illnesses carry stigma e,g. chirrhosis, HIV
- Labelling
- Due to deviation from societal norms
- Secondary deviance
- People with an illness change their behaviour due to steriotypes
- Consequence of social impairment
- Restriction of activity
- Decreased self esteem
- Isolation and withdrawal from life
- Lack of confidence and skills
- Isolation and withdrawal from life
- Decreased self esteem
- Restriction of activity
- Biographical disruption
- Change in a persons social interaction after diagnosis
- Adjustments
- Develop new relationships
- Adjust to symptoms and treatment
- Adjustments
- Change in a persons social interaction after diagnosis
- Social trends in chronic illness
- Learning and conditioning
- Classical Conditioning
- Learning by association
- Neutral stimulus paired with an unconditioned stimulus
- Taste aversion learning
- Systematic desensitisation for fears
- Operant conditioning
- Learning by consequences
- Reward and punishment can be used
- Primary reinforcer
- Food water, needed for survival
- Schedules - Ratio or Interval
- Money - learned reward
- Schedules - Ratio or Interval
- Food water, needed for survival
- Secondary reinforcer
- Money - learned reward
- Classical Conditioning
- Risky behaviour
- The probability of a bad outcome
- We have to make assumptions about correct behaviour
- Epidemiology identifies risk groups
- Lay people trnsform numbers into all or nothings
- Risk society
- Technical advancement has brought us close to environmental catastrophe
- Nuclear power
- Combustion engine
- GM crops
- Technical advancement has brought us close to environmental catastrophe
- Socially disadvantaged men
- Prove manhood by drinking and speeding
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