SOC 2101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Social Distance, Social Rejection, Social Isolation

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 2101
• Professor: Kristen Tole

Document Summary

Located impairments within the individual body or mind. Emphasis on cure, rehabilitation and the normalization of disability. Emphasis on social forces and public issues. Social organization of time, space and practice"s: time: it takes the disabled more time to do things sometimes, space: making places accessible, adding ramps, lowering counters, even floors. Less about physical variations and potential troubles. Social responses to bodies that fail to meet social expectations. Assumptions about the body reflected in the social or physical environment. Seeking diagnosis: presence of alternative explanation for symptoms: thinking oh it"s just a cold, when really it"s a lot more, frequency, visibility, and severity of those symptoms, social context, access to care. Clinical reality of pain: sensation, tolerance threshold for pain, expression of pain. Gendered: masculinity: men are less likely to report chronic illness and chronic pain unless they have to. Interruption: will go away, acute problem, will go away.