SOC382 Lecture Notes - Lecture 24: Institute For Operations Research And The Management Sciences, Jack Layton

• School: University of Alberta
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC382
• Professor: Lisa Strohschein

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Lecture 7: experience of ilness (feb. 26, 16) (image): when someone is ill, usually is an individual process and not social. Suffering = part of humanity and we have perception of being ill (can empathize) Mea(cid:374)i(cid:374)g (cid:373)aki(cid:374)g does (cid:374)ot (cid:272)o(cid:373)e fro(cid:373) (cid:374)o(cid:449)here . (cid:449)e are e(cid:373)(cid:271)edded (cid:449)ithi(cid:374) so(cid:272)iety a(cid:374)d historical period / cultural understanding of what it means to be ill. When indiv experience severe illness, and go through this meaning making process, way they draw onto social meaning and personalize it and create adaptive stories and recapitulating to public = of interest. Bury: illness as biological disruption: disruption of taken-for-granted assumptions and behaviours. We construct our own biographies (have plans for life); finding meaning in life. When illness comes, it removes us from our own biographies. Attention drawn to body: increasingly have to pay attention to own body states (not done when we are healthy) esp for basic actions = impossible.