SOCI 2050 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Health System, Talcott Parsons, Sick Role

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOCI 2050
• Professor: Steven Prus

Document Summary

Physical, mental and social well being not merely absence of disease: good health - free of disease/disability, has social support, wellness, poor health - has disease/disability. Illness: subjective measure of health (how you feel personally: disease/disability: objective. Sickness: collection of illness and disease: macro - systems, materialism/conflict theory/marxism: conflict b/w people that own production and those that don"t. Support capitalist and repress workers = inequality: health care system there to make money and favors capitalists ($ to have a good diet higher income=faster service, causes low income/poor health/living.