HLTHAGE 1AA3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Patient Protection And Affordable Care Act, Health Promotion, Motivational Speaker
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Three important contemporary approaches in social sciences: the positive approach/ the structural functionalist approach, compete - societies and three stages of development! a. b. c. Need to look at social facts objectively! You are entitled to your own opinion: the critical approach/ con ict approach ( no person left behind rule)! From the con ict paradigm (critical approach) health and illness are viewed as professional constructs that result from power struggles between competing interest groups (segall and fries 2011) ! One group tries to improve their status at the expense of less powerful groups (exploitation)! Researchers feel the need to advocate for social justice on behalf of those less fortunate! They advise moral constitution (this is why we have health care for all) ! Con ict health sociologists question how organized medicine attained and maintained it its position of dominance in the health care eld!