HLSC 2P21 Chapter Notes - Chapter Preface : Medical Sociology, Talcott Parsons, Erving Goffman
19 Apr 2017
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Chapter summaries preface: people interpret health very differently depending on the context of their lives illustrates the social nature of health, perspective a way of looking at, interpreting, and evaluating the things around us. Illness or disease is a physiological or biological deviation from what is defined as normal. Limited by its underlying assumptions and its inability to fully understand some dimensions of health: moving outside of it permits us to examine health and health care using different lenses to assess and challenge commonly held beliefs. Sociology: defined by comote the science of society, social institutions and social relationships; specifically: the systematic study of the development, structure, interaction, and collective behaviour of organized groups of human beings. It is this ability to look past the individuals approach where everyone is responsible for his/her own fate, to examine how the historical and structural organization of society may be a source of the problem.
