3. X. More support is not always good
A. Young widows study
B. Women adapting to divorce
4. XI. Hansell school study of social networks and
health
A. Adolescence a time when many new health
behaviors are learned
B. Adolescence also a time when need for friendship
and group identity peak
• tardiness and absence data indicates how much
people are enthusiastic about school
• sociometric measurement - list all your best friends
• second list of the list of the most respected
students
C. Study procedure
6. D. Study results
1. Leader role
2. Broker role
3. Follower role
4. Isolate role
E. Implications
7. II. Issues in support research
A. Source of support
• this source affects its usefulness
1. Spouse best for psychological health
– if you are in a healthy relationship, you get great support
that reduces the posibility of psychological depression
2. Family and friend best for physical health
– you get emotional support from your parents but
sometimes parents are over involved in the kids lives and
try to GET support
– BUT if you have a substance abbuse problem, family is
not good support, your boss or co worker is because they
ar interested in the productivity and they give you the
right advice. But your family members try very hard to
ignore it because the healthy family members need a
member with problem and blame him for everything =
codependency
3. Boss and co-workers best for problems of substance
abuse and addiction
8. B. Kind of support
1. Hansell elderly study: lack of instrumental
support predicted depression best
C. Characteristics of recipient of support
• old people need support with daily routine stuff like
dressing up because their most common problem
is arthritis
• young people need more of an emotional support
like someone to confide in
• young people have the macho complex so they
dont want help
9. D. When is support provided?
• people generally help right away but people need it like
6 months in and there is no one to provide that help
when you need it
E. For how long is support provided?
• people that provide social support often burn out. Eg
the family members of people with cancer, aids etc. so
after a point they do not care as much. so health
providers have to learn to distance yourself from your
patients. you cant feel their pain or let yourself get
attached. thats why they overwork you so you dont
have the time and the energy to personally get attached
F. What are costs & benefits of providing help?
F. help is never free! you expect them to help you and if
anyone sees it as an unequal or imbalanced
exchanges then there are problems
10. III. Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of
American Community
By Robert D. Putnam, Simon & Schuster, 2000
A. Large recent decrease in civic engagement
• why is there loss of community in the americal life
1. Fewer adults voting for President
– people care less
2. Less union membership
– people are not getting what they want from unions
3. Less church attendance
– no time
4. Less involvement in community organizations
– like the rotary club
– back in the old days people had family dinners
11. 5. Fewer family dinners together
6. Less social visiting
7. Less charitable giving
8. More attendance at live sports events
12. 9. Less stopping at stop signs
– no one really cares about others
10. More giving finger to another driver
– gesture of aggression and insult
11. People less interested in community
–
13. B. Why is loss of community important?
1. Americans feel less healthy
– we are not that clean either
2. But social tolerance is increasing!
– ours is the most diverse society in the world
– is it necessary to have decreased community to have
increased tolerance?
14. C. Why is community decreasing in US?
1. More work pressure
– majority of women including the women of child bearing
age are working
2. Growth in spread-out suburb
– people drive everywhere and driving is very asocial
– all of out social life is outside of our neighborhood
3. Increase in TV watching
– theres wayy too many tv’s in the house. its a babysitter
noise and makes us feel there is someone with us
4. Increase in internet use
5. Growth of older people in population
18. Stephen Hansell, Ph.D.
Department of Sociology
Institute for Health Research
http://sakai.rutgers.edu
shansell@rci.rutgers.edu
609-203-2830
Notas del editor
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vertical = status \na lot of people available for friendship at low status. the leaders are the highest state but they are very few so they dont really have a lot of friends\n\nthe leaders and the brokers were most satisfied with school and did not have that many absences , they did very well in school too\nBUT there were some costs with being the leader = they had the most physical symptoms, headaches, stomach aches, back aches. they are because of the cost of being the high status person. \n\nthe low status people = the lowest grades, the lowest functional ratings by the principal BUT very healthy and happy \n
