Sociology; Health and Sickness

Health

Health

A state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being.

Social constructs

Health and sickness are socially constructed concepts.

Social inequality

Unequal distribution of health and healthcare based on social factors.

Medicalization

The process of redefining personal problems as medical issues.

Social institution

Medicine as a social institution that transmits norms and values of medical knowledge.

Doctor-patient relations

The interaction between doctors and patients that influences power dynamics.

Sick role

Actions and attitudes expected from someone who is ill.

Population

The study of the size, competition, distribution, and changes in human population.

Fertility rate

The average number of births per 1,000 people in the population.

Mortality rate

The average number of deaths per 1,000 people in the population.

Life expectancy

The average age to which a person can expect to live.

Migration

The movement of people from one geographic area to another for resettlement.

Population demography

Study of the size competition distribution and changes in human population

Malthusian Theorem

the theory that population growth is potentially exponential, according to the Malthusian growth model, while the growth of the food supply or other resources is linear, which eventually reduces living standards to the point of triggering a population decline.

• Population growth in malthusian eyes

Exponential/geometric (1,2,4,8,16,32)

• Food production and other resources in malthusian theory (eyes)
  

Arithmetic/additive( 1,2,3,4,5,6,7)

Malthusian Debate

• Neo-Malthusian

Population growth will eventually outpace available resources and lead to a global catastrophe

Malthusian Debate

Anti-Malthusians

Family planning and other changes will eventually cause population shrinkage 

Demographic freefall 

Megalopolis 

Group of densely populated metropolises

grow dependent on each other 

Eventually, combine to form a huge urban complex 

Alienation

decreasing importance of social ties and community 

Bystander effect

the more people that are present in a moment of crisis, the less likely any one of them is to take action.

Environmental sociology

nature world and human-made environment and how they interact with each other