HLST 1010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Welfare Dependency, Social Stratification, Infant Mortality

• School: York University
• Department: Health Studies
• Course: HLST 1010
• Professor: Kenneth Lam

Document Summary

Links between health and the economic, political, and social life of people in different groups, classes, regions, or societies. Cannot study and understand the whole society separately from the study of its individual parts. States, markets, ideas, discourses, and civil society are interrelated. Harold innis: analyzed how staples shaped canadian social, political and economic life (fish) Wallace clement/leo panitch: linked economic and political forces help structure and shape social life in canada. Resistance to these forces: working class and other social movements. Political ideology: system of ideas or beliefs that form the basis of a political or economic order. Viewing ideas and institutions as emerging from how a society organizes production, and uses such concepts as mode of production and class. Gives more basic explanatory importance to the way people live than to the ideas they produce. World shapes ideas more than ideas shape the world.