What Explains the Relationship Between Social Class and Mental Illness

question 8

Multiple Choice

What explains the relationship between social class and mental illness?

• A) Greater social stress associated with lower-class life may cause mental illness.
• B) The onset of mental illness may cause people to lose their jobs and move downwards in the social classes.
• C) Sociologists disagree as to whether lower-class life causes mental illness or the onset of mental illness causes people to move down in social class.
• D) There is no relationship between social class and mental illness.

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