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deesands

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How do sociologists define medicine? Explain how the concepts of sickness and health are socially constructed.
 
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What were the five kinds of participants identified by Turner and Killian who take part in collective behavior based on emergent norm theory?
 
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Reply #1 on: Jul 2, 2018
Answer to Question 1

Sociologists define medicine as a society's standard ways of dealing with sickness and injury. Sickness and health are socially constructed because they are matters of definition that vary by culture. In some tribal societies, for example, a person who talks to spirits may be declared a shaman who would be entrusted to treat medical problems. In another society, this same behavior might be grounds to declare someone mentally ill.

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the ego-involved; the concerned; the insecure; the curious; the exploiters


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Reply #2 on: Jul 2, 2018
Correct answers!


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