SOC 470F ST: Intro Soc for Health Professions
This course empowers Health Sciences students with the "Sociological Imagination", while demonstrating how it can be employed to explain the inception and progress of human civilization, including the emergence of social & health pathologies, and the institutionalization of health. Building upon this history, the course then addresses the social conditions and behaviors of individuals, groups & organizations in contemporary society, with special attention paid to how (1) the socialization of identities & interactions among health professionals & patients, as well as (2) the formation of health policy, are shaped by the interactions of culture, social structure, technological innovation, and durable inequalities.