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Disability and Emergency Preparedness
Presentation and slides from my invited talk at the University of North Texas School of Public Health on April 6, 2024 for National Public Health Week
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Goffman’s (1963) Perspective on Deviance, Stigma, and Impression Management
The content explores the sociology of deviance, highlighting Erving Goffman’s concepts from “Stigma: Notes on the Management of Spoiled Identity.” It delves into stigma, role distance, and impression management, using real-life and TV examples. Goffman’s strategies for impression management are analyzed, as well as criticisms of his viewpoints. The link provides further insight.
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Structural Functionalism: From Theory to Paradigm
At its most basic level, Structural Functionalism assumes that society operates like a cell/organism, the idea being that if something exists, it serves a function.
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Different Approaches to Research in Medical Sociology
When you crack open most medical sociology textbooks, they will start off by separating medical sociological research into two categories: sociology in medicine and sociology of medicine
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The Basics of Classical and Contemporary Sociological Theory
Sociological theory is a set of interrelated ideas that allow for
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What is medical sociology, and how is it distinct from other approaches to studying medicine, health, illness, disability, and healthcare?
Medical sociology demonstrates that things like likelihood of health or illness…are not random, but instead, are shaped by social factors. Medical problems become social problems when they are shared by many individuals with some similar characteristic, experience, or circumstance.
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A Brief Introduction to Sociological Perspectives on Health Disparities
Mini lecture for the Sociology Sunday series. What are health disparities? How can they be understood as social rather than biological or genetic? In this mini-lecture, I discuss the answers to these questions. Let’s examine health disparities as social phenomena:
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Is your Accommodation Policy Sending the Right Message to Disabled Students?
It is common knowledge in the disabled community that “accommodations” for disability in higher eduction are often unreasonable, putting immense burden on disabled students to navigate a class environment that does not meet their access needs. When professors fail to provide reasonable accommodations, they are rarely forced to change course–honestly, you’re lucky if your disability…
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What Behaviors do you Consider Deviant?
Before the lecture – Write down 5 behaviors you would consider deviant
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A Brief Introduction to the Sociological Study of Deviance and Social Control
A brief overview of the sociological perspectives on deviance and social control.
Medical Sociology on Wheels
Comments on Health Beliefs, Risk, Mitigation, and Sociological Research Methods, a Disabled Perspective