CONCEPTS W7

Question 1

Institutional heterosexism

Answer 1

A institutionalised assumption that everyone is heterosexual, through health care targeted at safe heterosexual activity etc. Perpetuates invisibility and stalls progress

Question 2

Culturally competent health care

Answer 2

Health care that is designed to effectively service all cultures & sexualities not just broad groups of people

Question 3

Limitations of scientific methods

Answer 3

Internal - science is a reflection of social values through paradigms
External - science is not objective but based off of biases, enforces normatively from dominant groups

Thomas Kuhn, Paul Feyerabend & Emily Martin

Question 4

Paradigm shifts

Answer 4

A common way of thinking in society, the agreed upon method of research that only changes when it becomes challenged

Thomas Kuhn

Question 5

Transformative science

Answer 5

17th century change of thinking, science became a transformative way to view the world