HLTA02H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Medical Sociology, Symbolic Interactionism, Disability Studies
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Lec 07: sociology and health interpretation)/ structure (features of the social world) understandings, and obvious" explanations of human behaviour, health and disease. Relationship between people and social structures/society: agency (action + Problematizes everyday living: taken for granted assumptions, common sense. Assume either a consensus or conflict model of society. Sociological imagination: thinking beyond our own subjective perceptions to question common sense. Theories in sociology of health/medicine: structural functionalism, symbolic interactionism, social construction, political economy (marxist, post structural (foucault, other critical theories: feminist, queer, critical disability studies, postcolonial. Definition: school of thought in sociology and anthropology that argues society should be understood as a system of interdependent parts. Different parts of social life depend on each other and fulfill functions contributing to social order and its reproduction functions social dysfunction maintaining social order. Consensus view of society: assumes shared values, norms, attitudes, and beliefs - Social order maintained by people acting in certain defined roles, performing certain.
