SOC 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Aboriginal Peoples In Canada, Postmodern Culture, American Psychiatric Association

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 1101
• Professor: Halyna Mokrushyna

Document Summary

Functionalist perspective: people are normally healthy and contribute to their society. Patterns of behaviour defined as appropriate for people who are sick. Medicalization has had a profound effect on the practices of childbirth, child rearing, and mothering. Fo(cid:396) (cid:272)e(cid:374)tu(cid:396)ies (cid:449)o(cid:373)e(cid:374)(cid:859)s health issues (cid:449)e(cid:396)e looked afte(cid:396) (cid:271)(cid:455) othe(cid:396) (cid:449)o(cid:373)en in their communities. Male p(cid:396)ofessio(cid:374) of (cid:373)edi(cid:272)i(cid:374)e took o(cid:448)e(cid:396) (cid:858)t(cid:396)eati(cid:374)g(cid:859) (cid:272)o(cid:374)ditio(cid:374)s su(cid:272)h as (cid:272)hild(cid:271)i(cid:396)th and menopause, which became redefined as medical problems. Feminist researchers have also questioned the role of medicine in shaping the ways in which women view their physical appearance. Symbolic interactionist perspective: focus on how the meaning that social actors give their illness or disease affects their self-concept and their relationships with others, aids stigma/medicalization: Aids is an example of illness as stigma any physical or social attribute or sign that so de(cid:448)alues a pe(cid:396)so(cid:374)(cid:859)s so(cid:272)ial ide(cid:374)tit(cid:455) that it dis(cid:395)ualifies that pe(cid:396)so(cid:374) f(cid:396)o(cid:373) social acceptance. Although illness is physical, how it is defined varies.