Social change and cultural change sociology notes Social Change Change is a very broad concept. Though change is all around us, we do not refer to all of it as social change. Thus, physical growth from year to year, or change of seasons do not fall under the concept of social change. In sociology, we […]
Auguste Comte law of three stages Auguste Comte: Auguste Comte (January 17, 1798 – September 5, 1857) was a French thinker known as the “father of sociology.” He developed a philosophy he called “Positivism,” in which he described human society as having developed through three stages, the third of which he called the “positive” stage,
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Habermas’s Public Sphere theory Habermas in his book “Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere” has discussed the theory of Public Sphere . For Habermas, the public and private spheres are not two dichotomous, mutually exclusive entities. The onset of economic modernization and capitalism in Europe impacted the relationship between the public and private spheres. Capitalist society brought with
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#Medical Sociology #Sociology of Health and Illness Evolution of Hospital as social organisation Historically, the development of hospitals as a social organization has occurred in four phases ( William Cockerham, book Medical Sociology). 1) Hospital as a religious centre 2) Hospital as a poor house 3) Hospital as a death house 4) Hospital as center
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Social epidemiology And approaches or theories of social epidemiology Social epidemiology is a branch of epidemiology that studies the distribution and determinants of health and disease in populations. In “Social Epidemiology,” Berkman and Kawachi defined social epidemiology as “the branch of epidemiology that studies the social distribution and social determinants of states of health.” Social
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The Sacred Canopy Peter berger’s religion theory As noted, Berger wrote The Sacred Canopy shortly after his first book with Luckmann, and he applies their approach to religion. The book falls in two parts, a theoretical and a historical one. The beginning of the theoretical part is based on the dialectical perspectives developed in The
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