SOC100H5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 11: Conflict Theories, Sour Gas, Talcott Parsons
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Some groups are more likely to die from the plague than others were. Health is not a medical issue but also a sociological issue. Life expectancy: the average age at death of the members of a population. One of the greatest short comings of modern medicine is its emphasis on high-tech cures rates than on preventative measures and environmental measures. Health is a state of complete physical, social and mental well-being , and not merely the absence of disease. Measuring the health of a population: sociologists typically examine the negative rates of illness and death. They reason that healthy healthy populations experience less illness and longer life than unhealthy population. 3 types of social causes: human-environmental factors, health risks arise from how activity shapes the environment that people live in, ex. The intro of sour gas wells and logging operations around the reserves of the.