SOSA 2503 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Purdue Pharma, Breast Cancer, Pain Management
15 Dec 2013
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Final assignment handed out this thursday, pink ribbons inc. , this lecture should give some background. The framing of health problems: media, movements, money november 19. How health issues are presented as moral issues. How public health has prevented health threats and how to deal with health threats over time. How drugs and people who use them have been presented differently over time. All these topics have in common: how health can be framed in different ways. Working in symbolic interactionist tradition, very fun in sociological theory. All about the way we make sense of our lives. Symbolic meanings we make of social interactions. Working w/in tradition, looked at society as a kind of play (theatre), used dramatelogical model. Had roles in it, would behave differently in front stage vs. back stage, public vs. private. How to people make meanings and how to they become social, are there clashes between people s views.
