HSCI 130 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Blood Pressure, Social Inequality, Sick Role
19 Feb 2017
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HSCI 130: Lecture 1 Notes
Concepts
● Abstraction of reality
● Elements of a theory
Facts
● Something generally accepted to be true
● Has not been disproven
● Objective, verifiable
Data
● The plural of datum I.e. Blood pressure, heart rate, obesity rates etc.
● Observations that are measurable
● PEOPLE tell stories about the data they collect
Theory
● In HSCI, we don’t mean a guess/hunch
● It’s a:
○ Set of ideas/concepts, statements that link the ideas together
○ Constructed for a purpose, to describe/explain/predict/control
○ Testable
Science
● Scientia = latin for “knowledge”
● Results in a body of knowledge
● Communicated through language, rules, maps
Paradigms: a perspective
Metaphors: figure of speech
Inductive: based on repeated observation/fact
Deductive: making a reasoning from a hypothesis, deducing
Chapter 1 + 2 Reading Notes
Chapter 2: Applying Sociological Imagination to Health, Illness and the Body
● Society shapes and is shaped by human behaviour
● Why apply sociological imagination/theory to wellness:
○ By better understanding society and culture, we will better be able to understand
health and wellness
○ A better understanding of health and illness allows us to more fully understand
society and culture
● Theoretical Framework: conceptual framework or school of thought which interrelated ideas and concepts
about an aspect of reality are formulated. Based on underlying assumptions, each one offers a different
way to think about health and the relationship between individual and society.
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Document Summary
People tell stories about the data they collect. Set of ideas/concepts, statements that link the ideas together. Deductive: making a reasoning from a hypothesis, deducing. Chapter 2: applying sociological imagination to health, illness and the body. Society shapes and is shaped by human behaviour. By better understanding society and culture, we will better be able to understand health and wellness. A better understanding of health and illness allows us to more fully understand society and culture. Theoretical framework: conceptual framework or school of thought which interrelated ideas and concepts about an aspect of reality are formulated. Based on underlying assumptions, each one offers a different way to think about health and the relationship between individual and society. Views society as harmonious system guided by social structure. Institutions are a special kind of social structure that organize the behaviour of a large group of people, create stability.
