Sociology 2179A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Social Constructionism, Social Anxiety Disorder, Anorexia Nervosa
16 Apr 2016
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Pearlin: structure-seeking : how structural arrangements afect health, large-scale studies; qualitaive analysis, measures of morbidity, health care uilizaion as objecive assessment of health status. What are the consequences, what comes along with it: example of textual analysis, how are illness"s conceptualized in the media, tv, books etc. Illness exists because our society has deined it as exising. Wide historical and cultural variaion in what is recognized as illness. If illness was a natural thing, it wouldn"t be changing over ime and it wouldn"t be diferent around the world, so to some extent it is socially constructed. Addicions, gay, grieving process is now medicalized, giving birth to a baby, masturbaing. Viewing illness as a social construcion directly conlicts with a medical model approach to illness. A medical model approach to illness contends that illness relects an objecive label; that illness is not morally laden and is apoliical (not poliical)
