HLTC02H3 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Social Constructionism, Social Stigma, Scapegoating
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Week 4: women"s labor, women"s health: focused narrowly on the analysis of biomedical discourse (martin, focused on historical analysis (birn; lock & kaufert to some extent; Glenn: applied a social constructionist approach to analysing medical categories (rapp; lock & kaufert; martin, used a political-economy approach (birn; doyal; to some extent lock. & kaufert, goldade: focused on ethnographic analysis (rapp; cornwall; katsulis et al. Goldade: used cross-cultural comparative analysis (lock & kaufert) Work and home are seen as separated aspects of life and the way the market works should not intrude into the home according to some. Private homes defined as beyond the market sphere. This also allows private corporations that run these old-age living communities. Whose rights aren"t being taken into account this special class of workers whose workplace is in the home of others. Vested interests of for-profit private agencies , state agencies seeking to contain costs, and private employers.
