HLTA02H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Postcolonialism, Disability Studies, Symbolic Interactionism
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Agency (action+interpretation)/structure (features of the social world) Problematizes everyday living: taken for granted assumptions, common sense, obvious explanation of human behaviour. Others: feminist theory, queer theory, critical disability studies, postcolonial theory. Structural functionalism (cid:522)school of thought(cid:523), society should be understood as a system of interdependent parts. Consensus view of society: assume shared values, norms, attitudes, beliefs (maintaining social order) Social order maintained by acting different roles/functions. Illness as deviance unnatural state of the human body, cause both physical and social dysfunction. Medicine is a controlling apparatus to maintain social order. Ex: talcott parsons (influential in 1950s to 1960s) Healthcare exists to restore/maintain social order, people must perform their roles because it is important to society. Doctor-patient relationship: harmonious, no real power imbalance. Key concept: doctor-patient relationship, sick-role (rights and obligations that surround illness and shape behaviour of the doctor and patient)
