Introduction Flashcards
Who was the first person to use the word sociology
Comte Augute
What is society ?
Society is a social world with all its structures, institution and organization around us pertaining to a group of people living in a bounded territory and shares a common way of life .
Who proposed culture as the way of life
Stockard 1997
State 3 significance of medical sociology
- Social condition do not only promote possibility of illness and disability but also enhance prospects for disease prevention and health maintenance
- It relates sociology studies methods and approach to medical health illness and medical practices
- For the fact that researches made by medical sociologist overlap with ones of the medical anthropologist and the medical psychologist
- Social factors help in determining the health of the individual group society as a whole
State importance of medical sociology
- Helps in the manner through which resources generated to cope the prevention of health hazard
- Social conditions and happening affect the medical professional and the health care system
- Individuals and societies tend to respond to health problems as it may be consistent with their culture norm and values
What make medical sociologist unique ?
The sociological perspective
What medical sociologist study ?
- Sociologist can study how some social group suffer illness more than the other
- They can study the social factors and how it affect the health care provider
- They can analyze the health care system as a whole
- They can study the individual health concerns rather than the change of pattern of the whole society
Briefly describe the four sociological perspectives on Health
1.The functionalist approach:the sick role
2. The feminist approach : female care more about their health than males
3.The conflict approach: the is bias in the health system as result of political,social,economical differences
4. The interactionist approach: how people interact with sick people the social stigma shedded on sick people such HIV
What is medical sociology ?
Medical sociology is a branch of sociology that deals with the study of the social behavior of and individual and the social causes and consequences on heath and illness . It also brings sociological perspectives,theories and method to the study of health ,illness and medical practice
Who proposed the relativity of illness
Schaefer and smith in 2004
What does the conflicts theorists seek to determine?
Who suffer
Who benefits
Who dominate at the expense of the other
What does labeling theory focus on
The effects of social stigma of the illness
Who said there is still bias in the health care systems
Janzen in 1998
When was medical sociology established
1940 in USA
When was medical sociology first used
1894 in an article called “the importance of social factors in health “ by Charles Mclntitre in an article
