What Sociological Theory Would The Issue Of Diabetes Fall Under?
Posted in Definition on 30. Jan, 2010
m doing a project for my sociology class and i need help relating my topic of the diabetes problem with a sociological theory (ex. conflict, feminist, functionalist, etc.) can anyone help me out here choosing one that fits?
any of them really
think first of their key concepts and how they might raise the kinds of questions you want to apply to the issue
1.symbolic Interractionism
Its key concepts include:
the looking glass self, impression management, social construction of reality, stigma, self- fulfilling prophecy, the role playing model of social interraction, back stage -front stage behaviour(especially of professionals eg doctors, nurses or patients)
2. conflict theory
concepts:
power relations,
discourses of power ie the way that some institutions eg medicine become powerful instituions from which major discourses of deviance are generated,
the three faces of power especially the second face of power- being able to gets one’s issue onto the agenda for discussion, the lack of resources for the non profit making public health sector, appropriation of health resources eg medicines
Feminist version of conflict theory:
the gendered nature of the devaluing of the ‘non perfect’ body.;
the unpaid work of caring for the long term ill,
3. Functional concepts:
Each stage in the history of society has institutions that are particularly functional for that stage. Religion was one of the major instiutions maintaing social order and social cohesion in feudal agricultural communities . In modern urban industrial, and now consumerist societies, what functions does the institution of health and medicine play. How does it adaapt to new circumstances” How do specific new modern forms of ill health or disease affect the general society? How do people play their specific roles as patients/doctors/nurses when dealing with diabetes?
Conflict mostly: Diabetes is mostly caused by eating improperly (Carbs and sugars) which are more available than high quality healthy foods, cost less and are encouraged by marketing, combined with poorer health care result in the disease being rampant among the lower class.
However, the previous answer works as well.