Sociology 2246A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Sick Role, Social Fact, Medicalization
28 Sep 2016
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Mortality and morbidity are inversely related to income. Society is a social system of interlocking and interrelated parts of an institution. Presented through a series of x and y causal statements. Durkheim is the model of this paradigm. Human beings think and do as the result of external constraining forces. The subject matter of sociology was these social facts and their impact on human behaviour. The social system is composed of parts that function to maintain order interdependently. Sturctural functionalism operates differently than other perspectives in 5 ways: 1. Sociology aims to discover and explain the impact of social facts on human behaviour attitude and feelings: 2. Social facts are to be treated as things that are real and external to human actions and that determine human behaviour: 3. Social facts can be seen as aspects of the human structure such as norms that guide behaviour: 4.
