Sociology 2246A/B Chapter 2: Chapter 2 - Theorizing Health - Major Theoretic Perspectives in Health Sociology (Terminology)
21 Jan 2019
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Chapter 2 - theorizing health: major theoretic perspectives in health sociology (terminology) Agency the ability of people, individually and collectively, to influence their own lives and the society in which they live. Biological determinism an unproven belief that individual and group behaviour and social status is an inevitable result of biology. Capitalism an economic and social system based on the private accumulation of wealth. The commodification of health care treating health care as a commodity to be bought and sold in the pursuit of profit maximization. Communism represents a vision of society based on communal ownership of resources, co-operation, and altruism to the extent that social inequality and the state no longer exist. Death rates the number of deaths in a population. Deviance behaviour or activities that violate social expectations about what is normal. Emotional labour refers to the use of feelings by employees as part of their paid work.
