SOCI 3645 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Social Conflict Theory, Social Fact, Iatrogenesis
1 Dec 2013
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3 fundamental assumptions: sociology tries to uncover universal causal laws, human behaviour is objectively measurable (survey research, experimental study designs), social facts are things which determine human behaviour through the established norms in every society. The relationships between social facts and health variables. Health variables can be studied as either outcomes caused by other variables (social factors, demographic structure) model a (ex. If you work in a poor environment you can get cancer from it) Or as independent causes resulting in the change of social variables model b (ex. Prevalence of disease in aboriginal communities caused a lot of deaths because of loss of culture) culture change = result variable, disease = result. In causal connections the cause variable always precede in time the effect variable. Is the study of causes of disease and the distribution of disease patterns in the population.
