SOCB50H3 Study Guide - Final Guide: Kidney Transplantation, Medical Sociology, Mass Society
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Contemporary legends, rumors and collective behavior: some neglected resources for medical sociology. Medical sociologists -> deal with mass phenomena: traditionally can only be understood by means of quantitative. Qualitative methods acceptance in relation to small-scale survey or epidemiological methods phenomena. Analysis of processes as opposed to measurement of outcomes. Outcome measurement fails to capture small scale events, social surveys and epidemiology fail to capture mass events. Story heard from friend from hairdresser: woman friend of another customer had 17 year old son went to club, Didn(cid:495)t come home, found slumped over at telephone booth, and scar on abdomen, taken to queens medical center indicating removal of kidney and no recollection of weekend. Several cases thought that organs being removed for sale by asian surgeon said superior officer. Realized collections of urban folk tales, urban legends, urban myths or contemporary legends. Became plot for hollywood movie and drama series (casualty)
