NURSING BN508 EXAM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
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Auguste Comte
1842 coined sociology
Society
A group of people bound by territory, culture, language, values and basic norms of
behaviour
Social structure - Enduring patterns formed by relationships among people, groups and
institutions
Theory
To ponder or to construct abstract interpretations to look for meaning to explain
situations.
Emile Durkheim
1858-1917
Karl Marx
1818-1883 Capitalism
Max Weber
1864-1920 Rationalisation - Not focused on class but rather Social Action
Sylvia Walby
Dual Systems Theory
Manuel Castells
, Information technologies has significantly modified all domains of human life
Sociology
the systematic study of human society.
Commonsense knowledge
the routine knowledge that people have of their everyday world and activities. 'Taken for
granted' knowledge.
Sociological Imagination:
a term used to describe the sociological approach to analysing social issues.
Health sociology
a field of sociology concerned with the social dimensions of health and illness.
Social patterns in the distribution of disease
concerned with why and where of the localisation of disease
Social determinants of health:
The economic, social, and cultural factors that directly and indirectly influence individual
and population health
Social construction
a general term which refers to the socially created characteristics of social life based on
the idea that people actively create reality.
Private troubles
occur within the character of the individual and within the range of his/her immediate
relations with others.
Public issues:
WITH COMPLETE SOLUTIONS GRADED A++
Auguste Comte
1842 coined sociology
Society
A group of people bound by territory, culture, language, values and basic norms of
behaviour
Social structure - Enduring patterns formed by relationships among people, groups and
institutions
Theory
To ponder or to construct abstract interpretations to look for meaning to explain
situations.
Emile Durkheim
1858-1917
Karl Marx
1818-1883 Capitalism
Max Weber
1864-1920 Rationalisation - Not focused on class but rather Social Action
Sylvia Walby
Dual Systems Theory
Manuel Castells
, Information technologies has significantly modified all domains of human life
Sociology
the systematic study of human society.
Commonsense knowledge
the routine knowledge that people have of their everyday world and activities. 'Taken for
granted' knowledge.
Sociological Imagination:
a term used to describe the sociological approach to analysing social issues.
Health sociology
a field of sociology concerned with the social dimensions of health and illness.
Social patterns in the distribution of disease
concerned with why and where of the localisation of disease
Social determinants of health:
The economic, social, and cultural factors that directly and indirectly influence individual
and population health
Social construction
a general term which refers to the socially created characteristics of social life based on
the idea that people actively create reality.
Private troubles
occur within the character of the individual and within the range of his/her immediate
relations with others.
Public issues:
