HLTA02H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Sick Role, Medical Sociology, Friedrich Engels
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1 ways of thinking sociologically about health, illness and medicine. Most types of morbidity and mortality are inversely related to income: statistically correct to say that the lower the income, the higher the rates of sickness, disability and death. Explains the relationship b/w different health care and role of system in context of the culture and political globalizing world. 4 paradigms; structural-functional theory, conflict, symbolic interactionist/interpretive and feminist/anti racist theory. Structural functionalism the normal science of the discipline. Emile durkheim provided theory and methodological models. Assumed proper level of study for sociologist is the society or the system. Social system is composed of parts, institutions that functions to maintain order in the social system. Often associated with a positivist methodology; they view science in the same way that physicists view physics as a science. 5 principles distinguish structural functionalism from others: 1. Sociology aims to discover and explain the impact of social facts on human behavior, attitude, and feeling: 2.
