SOCY 1022 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Cirrhosis, Infant Mortality, Hegemonic Masculinity
6 Mar 2016
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Inequality: sociology does more than descrine our structure, culture and interaction. It looks at how economic, social, and cultural resources are distributed. At the consequences of these patterns in terms of opportunities and obstacles. Health: health is a state of physical, mental, and social well being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity: life expectancy in us is 78 years. Women live 5 years more than men: biology and genetics are still shaped by the environment, starting assumption. Chapter 1 review: biomedical model: biomedical model (19th century) and now dominates. Hospitals become primary site for care: characteristics of biomedical model. Illness can be explained by one single cause. Movie review: orgasm inc: sociologists view illness as socially constructed. Definition: meaning is created or produced by our thoughts and interactions. Shaped by culture, history and context: medicalization. Medicalization of ordianry life": main focus: the way fsd has become medicalized. Vary wide and vague definition of fsd.
