SOC 2101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Structural Functionalism, Smoothness, Talcott Parsons

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 2101
• Professor: Louise Chartrand

Document Summary

We have a hard time grasping that it"s a perspective, it"s a way of seeing things. The medical perspective increased as the level of interest in the medical field increased. Medic-care (government will pay for our health care) 1950"s and has further developed 1960"s health care outside of hospitals were introduced, doctors then gained the medical authority. Increased our knowledge on the individual or action, that we don"t stay with one perspective that we critic all, allowing us to get the best care. It is interested in relationships (doctors, patients, workers, family) seeing how it works so we can further work on it. Sociology in medicine: refers to sociological research in which the researcher studies questions of interest to and often defines by the medical profession. Sociology of medicine: take a more distant and critical approach to studying medicine, its workers and its methods of delivery. Disease: the pathological process, most often physical and something with unknown origin.