SOCI 3645 Study Guide - Symbolic Interactionism, Social Fact, Occupational Safety And Health
1 Dec 2013
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The distribution of disease an death (patterns and trends) Environmental conditions and morbidity/mortality, occupational health and safety issues, and health consequences (patterns and trends) The socio-historical context of disease and mortality patterns. Socio-demographic explanations of disease and mortality patterns; age and sex-related patterns of life expectancy, morbidity and mortality. Class, gender, race, ethnic, and other social inequalities as explanations of morbidity and mortality patterns. The experience of illness acute and chronic; symbolism related to illness and mortality: grand sociological approaches/theories in the study of health and illness. Structural functionalism: objective definition of the role of the. Social facts are reflected in such aspects of social structure as norms patient and his/her behaviour. The role of sociology is to discover and explain the impact of social. By analyzing these norms, institutions, and behaviors the sociologist seeks to uncover universal laws (regularities) that are causal; Human behaviour is objectively and quantitatively measurable through experiments (in controlled samples and comparisons) and through surveys.
