SOC 2101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Talcott Parsons, Health Belief Model, Infant Mortality
16 Mar 2016
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State of complete physical, mental, emotional, and social well-being. Sociologist who collaborates directly with the physician and other health personnel in studying social factors that are relevant to a particular health disorder. Factors such as the organization, role relationships, norms, values, and beliefs of medical practice as a form of human behavior. Medical sociology vs. sociology of health and illness. Broader focus on health-related topics including population health, health behavior, and health promotion. Sociologists study power (who, how, consequences of having or lacking it) Power: ability to get other to do what one wants. The ability to see the connections between our personal lives and the social world in which we live. Help people to use information and to develop reason in order to achieve lucid summations of what is going on in the world and of what may be happening within themselves. Society comprised of parts, work together to reach equilibrium.
