SOCI 3820 Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: George Herbert Mead, Anselm Strauss, Unemployment
25 Nov 2013
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Chapter 10 constructing disability and living with illness. Health and illness are often though of as medical categories; however, according to sociologists these are also social phenomena that cannot be understood fully by biomedical criteria. Several studies have pointed to the importance of lay health beliefs in people"s understanding of the body and have demonstrated how health beliefs may vary between different social and cultural or ethnic groups. There is an assumption that people experience pain in a universal way. That pain can be measured objectively and that, therefore, we can compare magnitudes of pain between individuals. Social class can also be a factor in how illness is defined. Illness is socially constructed; that is, out meaning of illness are shaped through out interactions with other. The meaning of illness is also influenced by an individual"s identity, time, and place.
