HLTB41H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Medical Sociology, Iron Cage, Talcott Parsons
Document Summary
Chapter 2: health sociology & the social model of health. Sociological imagination c. w mills to describe the sociological approach to analyzing issues link between personal troubles and public issues. Theoretical perspectives: structural functionalism, marxism, weberianism, symbolic interactionism, feminism, post-structuralism\postmodernism, human rights & anti-racist approaches. Structure-agency debate a key debate in sociology over the extent to which human behaviour is determined by social structure. Social structure a key debate in sociology over the extent to which human behaviour is determined by social structure. Agency the ability of people individually and collectively, to influence their own lives and the society in which they live. Sociologists try to understand how social structure and agency interplay. Strucuralist assume that social structures play a major role in shaping individual and group behaviour. Key features of major theoretical perspectives: structural functionalism | consensus theory, key theorists:
