7.1 Learning Outcomes
Aimee Samara Krouskop and Avery Temple
This chapter offers you the opportunity to:
- Explain how sociology applies policy evaluation and a social construction lens to study healthcare in the United States.
- Illustrate how groups experience health, safety, and security in the United States differently, and how government plays a role.
- Explain how colonization shapes contemporary issues around health, safety, and security.
- Discuss alternative and decolonizing models for providing health, safety and security in society.
definition
a science guided by the understanding that the social matters: our lives are affected, not only by our individual characteristics but by our place in the social world, not only by natural forces but by their social dimension.
the system of norms, rules, and organizations established to provide medical services.
the extent of a person’s physical, mental, and social well-being.
the institution by which a society organizes itself and allocates authority to accomplish collective goals and provide benefits that a society needs.
the action or process of settling among and establishing control over the indigenous people of an area.
