HSS 2321 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Ableism, The Communist Manifesto, Allopathic Medicine

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Health and illness: experience of illness and death, structural determinants of health, constructs of disease, illness, and death. Medicine: health care nancing, health professions, medicalization and biomedicalization. Emile durkheim - founding father of sociology. Wrote suicide (1987) which analyzed suicide based on race and other factors. Society/system is composed of institutions that week to create and maintain order. Institutions are linked and function as such: they create the rules of the game . They take diverse forms (judicial, education, economy, family) #1: sociology is a science that, like the natural sciences, seeks to identify universal causal laws predicated on the function of social facts, sociology as a science assumes that human behaviour can objectively and quantitatively be measured. Sickness is a legit excuse for not for lling roles, generally documentation is required. Criticism: legitimacy needs to be determined (nature, severity, longevity) and individuals regular roles.

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