Sociology 2246A/B Chapter 1: Chapter 1 - Imagining Health Problems as Social Issues (Terminology)

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Chapter 1 - imagining health problems as social issues (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 are an inevitable result of biology. Biomedical model the conventional approach to medicine in western societies, based on the diagnosis and explanation of illness as a malfunction of the body"s biological mechanisms. Biopsychosocial model an extension of the biomedical model, it is a multifactorial model of illness that takes into account the biological, psychological, and social factors implicated in a patient"s condition. Cartesian dualism also called mind/body dualism and named after the philosopher. Descartes, it refers to a belief that the mind and body are separate entities. Class a position in a system of structural inequality based on the unequal distribution of power, wealth, income, and status.

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