NURS301 Lecture 6: nurs 301 6

• School: University of Alberta
• Department: Nursing
• Course: NURS301
• Professor: Christine Covel

Document Summary

Truth and understanding of the world re determined by our life experences, which in turn, inform how we view the world. Value of knowledge development lies in the ability to understand how people perceive their world. Knowledge development occurs through observation or dialogue with people, or both. Critical social thought philosophical orientation that suggests that reality and our understanding of reality is constructed by people with the most power at a particular point in history. Places strong emphasis on understanding health and illness within the context of history. This perspective supports the ndestanding that health and other aspects of reality are shaped by numerous social, political, economical and cultural factors. Such factors include gender, social, and economic status, minority vs majority status and even a country"s status as a developed versus developing nation. Strong emphasize placed on understanding how power imbalances associat4ed withi. Designs: grounded theory, ethnography, phenomentology, narrative beliefs (critical social theory,