chapter 13 (social patterning of behaviour)

Question 1

social influence

Answer 1

effects on personal choice arising from a wish to please others, fear of sanctions, and peer pressures to conform.

Question 2

methodologically individualist

Answer 2

any approach that attempts to explain social phenomena by the choices and behaviours of discrete individuals. free will explanations.

Question 3

health belief model

Answer 3

4 key variables:
1. self-perceived personal risk
2. self-perceived severity of outcomes associated with unhealthy behaviour
3. self-perceived barriers to and costs of behavioural change
4. self-perceived benefits of making the behavioural change

Question 4

social patterning of behaviour

Answer 4

the usually unconscious determination of behaviour by contextual factors such as place in a social network; the characteristics of one’s neighbourhood; and the norms and structures of one’s workplace, class, and social position.

Question 5

lifestyle

Answer 5

the mode of living or typical way of life of an individual or group; an expression of identity,