33. INEQUALITIES, GENDER AND ETHNICITY TUTORIAL

Question 1

1. What might be the Social Reasons associated with the Patient’s Ill Health?

Answer 1

1. The Behavioural Model
2. Materialist Model
   
   • low income
   • limited access to resources
3. Psychosocial Model
   
   • stress
4. Social Selection Model
   
   • ill health results in a low socio-economic status
5. Racism
6. Masculine Habits
   
   • heavy smoking
   • heavy drinking

Question 2

2. What Sociological Principles can you apply to this case?

Answer 2

1. Uncertainty about Prognosis
2. Uncertainty about Functionality
3. Health as a Function
4. Health as a Reserve
5. Biographical Disruption
6. Discreditable Stigmatisation
7. Supernatural Site
8. Social Site

Question 3

3. Drawing from your Psychology Lectures, how ca you explain the impact of stress on the patient?

Answer 3

1. Stress
   
   • it leads to Psychological changes
   • Cortisol is released
   • large amounts of Cortisol are harmful for our health
   • the diet is affected
   • the sleep schedule is affected
   • it has an overall negative impact on our health
2. The patient tries to Cope in unhealthy ways:
   
   • drinking
   • smoking
   • drugs

Question 4

4. What would be some healthy Coping Mechanisms that the patient could try?

Answer 4

• exercise
• opening up to someone
• praying
• meditation

Question 5

5. Drawing on your Psychology lectures, how would you explain the patient’s phrase: “I can no longer stay in the hospital, it adds to my stress”?

Answer 5

• the hospital setting is an unfamiliar place for the patient
• their privacy is compromised
• their independence is compromised
• their routine is disrupted
• they have limited social participation