SOC246H1 Lecture Notes - Cramp, Peripheral Artery Disease
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Winter 2012, class 5 positivist and interpretivist approaches. Basic concepts to describe health and aging in the population. Different approaches to study health what does health in older age. Health problem being a barrier in participation in social life relevant with aging and health: positivist vs. interpretivist approaches to health. Positivist sociology emphasizes objective facts, things we can go out into the world and measure, precision, and quantitative ways of representing reality. Assumes that phenomena n the world are objectively out there for us to observe. We can meaningfully measure the social life ( attach number) and make prediction about the future on the basis of observation. Interpretive sociology emphasizes meaning, representations and portrayals, richness and depth, and subjective aspects of the world. Our job is to make sense of phenomena in the social world and to question the meaning that people attach to words like health and aging. Meaning that people attach to concept ex: disability.