Weeks 1-4 Content

Physical Wellness

Physical activity, diet, sleep, weight, drug/alcohol use, disease prevention

Financial Wellness

Budgeting, saving, living within your means

Emotional Wellness

(AKA: Mental Wellness) Optimism, self-esteem, self-acceptance, ability to process and share feelings

Social Wellness

(AKA: Interpersonal Wellness) Healthy relationships, support networks, sense of belonging

Environmental Wellness

Awareness of unstable state of the earth, effects of daily habits, protecting and minimizing harm

Intellectual Wellness

Curiosity, lifelong learning, engaging in creative, stimulating, mental activities

Spiritual Wellness

Meaningful life purpose, set of guiding values or beliefs that give direction to one’s life

Occupational Wellness

Fulfilling work, using your talents and skills to gain purpose and enrichment in life

Within the realm of wellness:

Education, economics, politics, cultures, cognition, human development

Social Conflict Theory

Struggle for dominance among social groups, exploitation and oppression of the subordinate groups by the dominant group or groups, “have” vs “have not”

Traditional Theory

Explaining and understanding society “just the way it is”

Critical Theory

Critiquing and changing society as a whole, challenging power structures in order to foster social change

Ethno-

People or a social cultural group

Method-

Practices that are used to complete a task or activity

-Ology

Study of

Ethnomethodology

How people interact with the world and the rules they create and use to place themselves and others into social contexts, methods that people use on a daily basis to account for their activities

Feminist Theory

Aiming to understand culture and origin of gender and gender inequality by examining women’s roles in various settings, material and social discrimination against girls and women influence their social conditions and health

Rational Choice Theory

Individuals will act to. balance costs and benefits to arrive at an action that maximizes personal gain, motivated by self interest, individuals are capable of and bear responsibility for making their own actions

Social Constructivism

Aims to understand how individuals and groups participate in the construction of their perceived realities, emphasizes the importance of culture and context in understanding what occurs in our society

Reality

Construed through human activity, members of society invent reality

Knowledge

Socially and culturally construed

Learning

Social process that doesn’t take place only within one sole individual, nor is it singularly shaped by external forces

Social Phenomenology

Belief that society is a human construction, what role human awareness plays in the production of social action, thoughts, situations, and worlds, if or how you relay your knowledge to others

Social Positivism

Use of the scientific method in research and theory construction, aims to understand society mainly through observable and testable means, assumes that reality is mostly concrete, can have and reach a complete objectivity

Functionalism

Each aspect of society depends on each other and each contributes to that overall stability and functioning of that society

Structural Functionalism

All societal aspects serve a purpose and are all indispensable for the long term survival of the society, major social systems interact with, provide, and consume outputs from one another