Biopsychosocial Model, Society, and Culture

Question 1

The BPS Approach

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Illness can’t be understood by only biological factors

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Biomedical Approach

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Focuses on physical aspect of illness

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Model

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Provide an approximation of phenomena that can’t be observed directly

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Theories

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Provides conceptual framework for understanding objects of study

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Social Constructionism

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Human actors construct/create reality vs. discovering reality w/ inherent truth

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Symbolic Interactionism

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Like social constructionism, except focuses on smaller/interactions between individuals and small groups

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Symbols

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Terms,concepts, or items that represent specific meanings

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Functionalism

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Factions of society work together to maintain stability

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Conflict theory

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Views society as competing groups; self interest

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Culture

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All the beliefs, assumptions, objects, behaviors, and processes that make up a shared way of life

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Material Culture

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Objects involved in way of life

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Non-material culture

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Ideas, knowledge, values

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Social norms

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Expectations that govern acceptable behavior

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Social groups

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Subset of population that maintains social interactions; shared experiences

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Symbolic Culture

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Non-material culture that have meaning only in the mind

Social norms, collective beliefs, meanings of rituals, language

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Society

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Two or more individuals living in one community and/or sharing elements of culture

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Social institution

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Hierarchical systems bringing order to interpersonal interactions
ex. government, economy, education, religion, family, health/medicine

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Demographics

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Stats used to examine nature of specific population

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Demographic transition

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Demographic change taking place over time

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Cohort vs period study

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Over lifetime vs. specific time period

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Social movement

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Group of people with shared ideologies work together towards a specific goal

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Urbanization

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Increase in proportion of people in specified urban areas

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Globalization

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Increased amount of interaction on international scale

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Spatial inequality

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Unequal access to resources and decreased quality of life

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Global inequality

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Disparities between regions/nations

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Environmental Justice

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Equal treatment of people with regard to prevention and relief from environmental/health hazards

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Residential Segregation

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Social inequality on local scale

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Social Class

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System of stratification according to similarities in social standing (status, power, SES)

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Priviledge

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Advantages of power and opportunity

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Prestige

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Relative value assigned to something within society

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Intragenerational mobility

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Upward/downward mobility within generation

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Inergenerational mobility

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Upward/downward mobility over generations

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Meritocracy

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Advancement based solely on abilities and achievements of individual

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Cultural Capital

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Set of non-material social factors that contribute to social mobility

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Social capital

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An individual’s social networks and connections that may offer economic/personal benefit

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Social Reproduction

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Transmission of social inequality across generations

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Poverty

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Insufficient material goods, wealth, and access to resources

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Absolute Poverty

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Lack of essential resources

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Relative Poverty

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Poor compared to other members of society