HLTHAGE 1AA3 Lecture Notes - Social Medicine, Biopower, Michel Foucault
5 Jul 2013
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Sociological imagination - whatever happens in your life that is bad, you can blame it on society; link everything to social forces/position in society. Society have predictable way of communicating with each other. Two people never see each other, but they have common ground as to how to relate to each other. However, on a global level, in general, men receive more money and earn more than women, so may not be personal. Way to explain things of the world. Trying to explain why things are the way they are. We need politics, education, healthcare, economy to function as society. Each part of society is interconnected with each other. If there is a mess in one part, then the whole thing is affected and not gonna work well. We have this idea that when we are sick, we can deviate from our normal behaviour and role. We enjoy the rights that healthy people do not have.
