HLTHAGE 1AA3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Percivall Pott, Social Conflict Theory, Immunodeficiency
4 Mar 2013
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The purpose of this chapter is to describe and analyze critically the methodologies used in the construction of knowledge in the 4 theoretical paradigms: structural functionalism, conflict theory, symbolic interactionism, and feminist and anti-racist theory. This is most often associated with structural functionalism and it"s distinguished by 3 fundamental presuppositions: Sociology is a science that seeks to describe the social world in series of universal causal laws. This science sees human behaviour as objectively measurable through such methods as survey research and experimental designs. Social facts are to be treated as things because they determine human social behaviour and attitudes through the norms that regulate human behaviour. Much of the sociology of medicine falls within this including studies of: Who seeks medical services and how frequently. What role is played by such social factors as social norms for defining mental and physical illness.
