HLTA02H3 Study Guide - Intersectionality, Verstehen, Symbolic Interactionism

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Lecture 1 chapter 1: ways of thinking sociologically about health, Seeks to describe and explain the social causes of illness, disease, disability and death. All of us experience illness in a social context. Uses four central perspectives to analyze different aspects of illness: structural functionalism: Emile durkheim provided both the theoretical and methodological models of structural functionalism. Social facts are to be treated as real, external to individuals, and yet capable of constraining and directing human behaviour and thought. Human beings are predictable, and controllable through the power of norms that exist in their own right. Structural functionalism: assumes that the proper level of study for the sociologist is the society of the system. The social system is said to be composed of parts, institutions that function to maintain order in the social system. Positivists assume that social scientists should and can remain objective and value-free while observing, recording, and measuring external social facts.

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