SOSC 2150 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Everyday Health, Health Promotion, Culture Of The United Kingdom
Document Summary
Although a particular theory, or way of explaining and looking at the world, may achieve dominance at any moment in time, alternative and potentially competing explanations will also be current. Thesis: there is a need for a more flexible approach to theory building in health promotion. It is also very important to acknowledge and question the power of the biomedically based positivistic models of inquiry and theory building in health promotion. Lay theorizing needs to occur to take into account all the cultural aspects to health promotion that biomedical theories do not acknowledge. One way of understanding these complex processes is by investigating their meanings for the people involved. Lay theorising involves the location of such concepts, and others perhaps not directly related to health matters, within broader culturally meaningful systems. While lay theorising can be both independent of and interlinked with the dominant biomedical paradigm, its parameters and referents are based in wider social and cultural systems.
