Social Epidemiology In My Family

Social Epidemiology
The first concept that I am going to talk about is Social Epidemiology and how that applies to my family members. “The study of how health and disease are distributed throughout a society’s population” (Macionis, 2017, pg 433). This means sociologists study how we take care of ourselves and sick from diseases. How this relates to my social group is that we all got sick and some of my family members get sick and pass on the sick to the rest of the family. But they also get sick from kids at their schools and my mom get sick from people at her work passing around the flu or cold.
Gerontocracy and Kubler-Ross stages of Death and Dying
The second concepts that I am going to talk about is gerontocracy and Kubler-ross stages

Family is an agent of socialization through nurture in early childhood by teaching children skills, values, and beliefs (Macionis, 2017). They are also an agent of socialization through race and class (Macionis, 2017). Race because of where we come from and how we view ourselves (Macionis, 2017). Class because of the type of family that we born into, either of high or low class and how it affects our growing process (Macionis, 2017). This talks about how family is agent of socialization through childhood, race and class. How this relates to my social group is that my parents have always taught me and my siblings that in order to achieve success you must work hard by studying and doing well in school. It also plays a role in my social group because my family come from Nigeria, where parents strive for their children to be successful and to have a good education. Even though we are of the lower middle class, my parents still expect for us to be successful in life, because they do not want us to have the type of lives that they

Erik Erikson viewed socioemotional development as the challenges that we faced throughout life and he also created the eight stages of socioemotional development: infancy, toddlerhood preschool, preadolescence, adolescence, young adulthood, middle adulthood, and old age to explain how we go through life (Macionis, 2017). The social theories of development were viewed differently by a sociologist named George Herbert Mead, who viewed that our identities are developed through social interaction and in order to engage in that process, we have to view ourselves through the eyes of the people around us (Theories of Self-Development). How this relates to my social group is that the members of my family experience socioemotional development differently. We are all going the different stages of life and developing in our own way and we all have our own individual social groups of friends and others to help go through