Q2. What are the key areas that would benefit from research within the socialization framework?
Four key areas that would benefit from research within the socialization framework are identified: health behaviours, psychological vulnerability, social skills and future time perspective.
Q3. What is the main argument for the paper?
The authors argue that cultural, behavioural, structural and material explanations of social inequalities need to be integrated in order to understand the social determinants of health.
Q4. What is the main premise of the paper?
The central premise here is that good social bonds provide specific benefits that flow from the trust, reciprocity, information, and cooperation associated with social networks.
Q5. What is the main topic of the paper?
The idea that social class influences behaviour, emotion and cognition (Gallo & Mathews, 2003; Shaffer, 1994) is an emerging theme in the psychological literature.
Q6. What is the main purpose of this paper?
This paper proposes that socialization is a process that links social selection (where early life environmental factors are seen to influence both adult health and social career), materialist/structural, and cultural/behavioural explanations of health inequalities.
Q7. What is the importance of the social environment?
The importance of the social environment lies in the kinds of behaviours, attitudes and beliefs that are sampled in a particular environment.
Q8. What is the main argument in this paper?
This paper argues that the social selection, material and behavioural explanations are interrelated, and socialization is the mechanism through which societies shape patterns of behaviour and being that then affect health outcomes.
Q9. What is the key to the socialization framework?
Socialization: Key areas for future researchFour key areas, linking social structure to health, are likely to benefit from researchwithin the socialization framework.
Q10. What is the support for the study?
AS-M is supported by grants to the Whitehall II study from National Institute onAging (AG13196), US NIH and the John D and Catherine T MacArthur Foundation Researchexplanations for social inequalities in health are related to each other through the mechanism of socialization; seen here as a process through which societies shape patterns of behaviour and being that then affect health.
Q11. What is the main text word count?
Abstract word count: 98 Main text word count: 2000Key Words: health inequalities, habitus, socialization, socioeconomic position, lifecoursegradient in health in developed countries (Fox, 1989; Krieger, Williams & Moss, 1997; Marmot, Rose, Shipley & Hamilton, 1978).
Q12. What is the role of FTP in educational achievement?
FTP has been found to play a role in educational achievement (Peetsma, 2000; Shell & Husman, 2001), risky behaviour (Rothspan & Read, 1996; Zimbardo et al., 1997), and has been extensively linked to substance abuse (Keough, Zimbardo & Boyd, 1999; Wills, Sandy & Yaeger, 2001).
Q13. What is the importance of social structure and health behaviours?
Health behaviours, when viewed asperspective stresses the importance of the interrelation between social structure and behaviour and the assessment of global rather than individual health behaviours.
Q14. What is the link between social structure and health?
3. Social participation: Social networks, social support and the wider concept of socialcapital has been extensively linked to health in recent years (Berkman, Glass, Brisette & Seeman, 2000; House, Landis & Umberson, 1988; Putnam, 2000).
Q15. What is the link between social advantage and health?
Social advantage has been linked to maintenance and even increase in health advantage over the last century despite changes in knowledge about risk factors.
Q16. What is the role of socialization in health?
The socialization hypothesis has proved useful to examine development of attitudes (Glass et al., 1986; McLanahan & Bumpass, 1988), and is likely to provide insight into psychosocial vulnerability.