Health and Well-Being
The Department of Sociology studies and teaches about many aspects of Health and Well-Being, such as:
- The social organization of health care including social determinants (e.g. race, ethnicity, income, and education) of access to health care, and the structure of health professions; the social psychology of health (i.e., health related attitudes and behaviors) focusing on such topics as alcohol consumption, drug use, doctor-patient communication, mental health, sociology of the body, attitudes towards food safety, the origins and consequences of stress, and responsibility relationships in health and medicine, as well as intimate partner violence and abuse and neglect in long term care settings;
- The demography of aging (including the social factors associated with healthy aging and disability among older adults) and
- Social epidemiology (including social/environmental determinants of lead poisoning and environmental causes of other diseases) along with social movements that promote research into these environmental causes.
