HLTHAGE 1BB3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Social Constructionism, Bone Density, Marxism
25 Feb 2014
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Three broad areas of study: biomedicine, changes in physiology and health, psychosocial studies, changes within individuals and between individuals and groups, socioeconomic-environmental studies, effects of aging on social structures, effects of social structures on aging individual. How is theory valuable to researchers: allows integration of new knowledge with information that is already known, provides framework for explanation of finding, predicts outcomes in future research, provides practical information for the development of social. Interpretive perspective: micro level of social life, how people define situations, create their social world and how they relate to one another in daily life. Social constructionism represent interpretive approach: mead, objects and events have no meaning in themselves, people give them meaning through everyday interaction, give meaning to objects, base actions on these meanings, (examples: gray hair and hearing aids) Interpretive perspective views individual as a creator of social order and organization: symbolic interactionist perspective recognize objects and behaviours can have more than one meaning, (ex.
