SOSC 1801 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Structural Violence, Symbolic Power, Social Forces

• School: York University
• Department: Social Science
• Course: SOSC 1801
• Professor: Denielle Elliott

Document Summary

Social forces such as racism, pollution, poor housing, poverty: these shape the course of disease and illness. How social forces affect health wellness and wellbeing the structural violence framework: that is based on theories that helps you understand social forces and the effects of these forces. Social forces beyond the control of a patient. Diseases that you don"t die from right away, stay with you for a. Hiv: known as a social disease long time: because trying to account for the way that these social forces shape the patterns of infections and mortality. Why certain populations get it more than others. Why do some survive a lifetime with hiv and some die within 5-10 years. Hiv: some choose to have a lot sex (sex workers, live in civil war a lot of rape, aren"t able to use condoms because it is forced. Smoking tobacco: addicted to smoking, know all the consequences, yet keep smoking.