HLTHAGE 1AA3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Ironman Triathlon, Long Shot, Brainstem
1 Feb 2017
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Health care systems as forms of social and symbolic reality. To understand the paradigm and this particular article, we will look at a specific person and his story that was in the news. How we incorporate the folk, popular and professional options in our lives as we effect human agency related to our well being. Individuals differ in their conscious understanding and acceptance of social norms and in the degree to which they follow those norms in actual practice. These differences determine the different choices we make with regard to our possible illness and what we might do about it. Kleinman distinguishes between 2 aspects of social reality: the social cultural world is social reality per say, the bridging reality that links the social cultural world with the psychological and biological/physical reality is termed the symbolic reality. The symbolic reality makes sense out of that inner experience. It helps shape personal identity in accordance with social cultural norms.
