HLTA02H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Social Forces, Ethnocentrism, Post-Structuralism
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*use film for assignment 2 as data it is not a summary. *how the films thesis might have a different disciplinary lens. Thinking beyond our own subjective perceptions to question common-sense. School of though in sociology (and anthropology) that argues society should be understood as a system of inter-dependent parts. Illness as deviance: unnatural state of the human body, causing both physical and social dysfunction: medicine is part of a controlling apparatus within society that functions to maintain the social order by returning people to health. Sick-role- rights and obligations that surround illness and shape behaviour of the doctor and patient. Components: exempt from performance of social obligations, not to blame for their condition, must want to try to get well (return to normalcy, must put themselves into the hands of medical professionals to get well. Labelling theory and stigma: goffman, labelling has important social consequences.
