HSS 2321 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Sociological Perspectives, Sick Role, Social Fact

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Health Sciences
• Course: HSS 2321
• Professor: Kirsti Bissada

Document Summary

Sociology of health and illness seeks to describe and explain: Social causes and consequences of illness, disease, disability and death. How people and professionals construct illness and how illness affects and is affected by. How medical systems are organized, structured and financed and occupational roles of social interaction health-care providers. Ideology: system of ideas: native canadian"s perspective of weather s newly immigrated, liberal government vs conservative, communism etc, which side of the road we drive on, what we eat for breakfast etc. Sociologists study the social world from a variety of perspectives, most dominantly: social functionalism, conflict theory, symbolic interactionism, feminist and critical. Depending on their perspective sociologists focus on some aspects of social life and ignore race theory others. Sociologists also ask different questions and use different methods to answer them. Mile durkeim provided the theoretical and methodological model for structural functionalism.