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Focuses narrowly on the physical aspects of illness

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Biomedical Approach

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Adds to the idea of scientific models as representations of reality
Human actors construct or create reality rather than discovering a reality that has inherent validity

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Social Constructionism

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Related to social constructionism in that it allows for social determination of shared realities
Focuses on a smaller scale of interaction between individuals and in small groups

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Symbolic Interactionism

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Terms, concepts, or items that represent specific meanings by acceted convention

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Symbols

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Factions of society work together to maintain stability.

Claims that society, like an organism, is a system that consists of different components working together

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Functionalism

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Views society in terms of competing groups that act according to their own self-intereste, rather than according to the need for societal equilibrium

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Conflict Theory

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All of the beliefs, assumptions, objects, behaviours, and processes that make up a shared way of life

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Culture

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Refers to the objects involved in a certain way of life

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Material Culture

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Encompasses the elements of culture that are not physical

Shared ideas, knowledge, assumptions, values, and beliefs that unify a group of people

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Non-material Culture

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Expectations that govern what behaviour is acceptable within a group

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Social Norms

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A subset of a population that maintains social interactions

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Social group

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A type of non-material culture that consists of the elements of culture that have meaning only in the mind

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Symbolic Culture

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Formal, ceremonial behaviours with specific purpose and significance

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Rituals

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Two or more individuals living together in a community and/or sharing elements of culture

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Society

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Hierarchical systems that bring order to interpersonal interactions, structuring society
Examples: government and economy, education, religion, family, health and medicine

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Social Institutions

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Provides order to society through the services it provides and the making and enforcement of the law

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Government

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An institution that distributes goods and services to meet the needs of a society

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Economy

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Provides a formal structure during childhood and the transition to adulthood and an opportunity to instruct youth on the social norms, expectations for behaviour, knowledge, and skills that they will need to operate within a society

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Education

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A system of beliefs that affects how people make sense of their experiences and provides a framework for questions about life, death, and the purpose of existence

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Religion

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Consists of bonds of kin and marriage and make up a major organizing institution of society

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Family

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Fulfills the need for healthcare in an organized manner

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Health and medicine

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Statistics used to examine the nature of a specific population by quantifying subsets of that population

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Demographics

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An approach to health and illness the provides a valuable framework to guide the study of concepts tested in the psychosocial section

Illuminates the importance of psychological and sociological study

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Biopsychosocial Approach

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A demographic change that takes place over time

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Demographic Transition

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The production of offspring within a population

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Fertility

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The death rate within a population

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Mortality

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The relocation of people from one place to another

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Migration

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A group of people who share an ideology and work together toward a specified set of goals

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Social Movement

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The increase in the proportion of people living in specified urban areas

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Urbanization

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Increasing amount if interaction and integration on the international scale through exchange of products, services, ideas, and information

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Globalization

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The unequal access to resources and variable quality of life within a population or geographical distribution

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Spatial inequality

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Disparities between regions and nations in aspects such as gross national product, natural resources, access to healthcare, and types or amounts of work available

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Global inequalities

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The equal treatment of all people regardless of race, gender, or other social grouping with regard to prevention and relief from environmental and health hazards

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Environmental Justice

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Instance of social inequality on the local scale

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Residential Segregation

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A system of stratification that groups members of society according to similarities in social standing

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Social class

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Influence over that community

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Power

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Advantage of power and opportunity over others

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Privilege

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The relative value assigned to something within a particular society

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Prestige

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Moving up the class system
Achieved through education, marriage, career, or financial success
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Upward Mobility

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Moving lower within the class system
Result of unemployment, underemployment, reduced household income due to divorce, lack of education, or health issues
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Downward Mobility

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Movement within the class system over an individual’s lifetime

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Intragenerational mobility

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Movement through the class system over generations

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Intergenerational mobility

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A society in which advancement is based solely on the abilities and achievements of the individual

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Meritocracy

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The set of non-monetary social factors that contribute to social mobility

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Cultural Capital

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An individual’s social networks and connections that may confer economic and/or personal benefits

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Social Capital

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The transmission of social inequality from one generation to the next

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Social Reproduction

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An insufficient of material goods, monetary wealth, and access to resources

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Poverty

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Having fewer options compared to those with greater financial resources

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Isolation OR Social Exclusion

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A lack of essential resources such as food, shelter, clothing, and hygiene

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Absolute Poverty

50
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Social inequality in which people are relatively poor compared to other members of the society in which they live

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Relative Poverty

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Differences in health and healthcare that occur between groups of people
Can occur according to demographic categories such as age, race, gender, class, and sexual orientation and can affect the prevalence and prognosis of disease

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Health Disparity (health inequity)

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