SY210 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Intersectionality, Post-Structuralism, Social Fact
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*illness is a social experience -- learn how to speak about it and act on it from the world around us, sociology of health and illness is different than the sociology of medicine, structural functional theory. -> goal: understand social origins behind social facts --> Study causal relationships amng institutions (how one institutions actions affect others) (ex. what is behind the social fact that we have a declining birth rate?: conflict theory. -> goal: document injustice by understanding how economic arrangements impact the conditions of social life. -> health & illness = related to unequal social arrangements of capitalist, patriarchal societies: symbolic interactionist theory. -> goal: understand the meanings and causes that people give to events. -> the meanings that people attach to their diseases affects how they see themselves and their relationships to others: feminist, anti-racist, and intersectionality theory. -> goal: help sociology to not be as narrow or bias in its analysis: post-structuralist theory.
