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Introduction to Sociology for Nurses
Definition of Sociology
Scientific study of society, including patterns of social relationships, social interaction, and culture.
Helps to understand the relationship between disease and social condition.
Study of human behavior
History of Sociology
Auguste Comte (1798-1857)
French philosopher
Known as the “Father of Sociology”
Theory of Positivity of Comte is one of the first theories of evolution of society.
Proposed that society and human behavior should be explained with the help of the scientific method.
Emile Durkheim (1858-1917)
French sociologist
Define and establish the field of sociology as an academic discipline.
Distinguished sociology from philosophy, psychology, economics, and other social science disciplines by arguing that society was an entity of its own.
Karl Marx (1818-1883)
German philosopher, economist, historian, sociologist, political theorist, journalist.
Famous advocate for communism
He cowrote The Communist Manifesto and was the author of Das Kapital, which together formed the basis of Marxism.
Max Weber (1864-1920)
German sociologist and political economist
Theory of social stratification, defining social differences through three components: class, status, and power.
Theory of Bureaucracy proposes that all business tasks must be divided among the employees.
Charles Darwin (1809-1882)
British naturalist
Theory of biological evolution by natural selection.
Defined evolution as "descent with modification," the idea that species change over time, give rise to new species, and share a common ancestor
Sociology in/of Nursing
Sociology in Nursing
Sociological analysis being applied to the essence of individual health care experience of patients or health care workers.
A vital tool in understanding more the patient’s reaction and response to treatment.
Sociology of Nursing
Concentrates on the sociological factors that evolve in the practice of nursing.
Refers to issues affecting the profession (occupational status, recruitment and attrition problem).
Importance of Sociology in Nursing
Understand the characteristics of social relationship, its complexities, and its impact on health care.
Helps in the understanding and eradication of social
problems.
Study the structure of family, community and society.
Help nurses to deal with their patients as individuals from a particular society with different backgrounds.
Gets information about the socio-cultural life of the patient.
Social correlates of disease including demographic factors
can be understood by the nurse with the knowledge of sociology.
Understand the behavior, conflicts, Interpersonal
Relationship (IPR), hierarchy, groups and adaptation of different people working in hospitals.
Helps the nurse to approach the patient at various level.
Emotional level
Cultural level
Intellectual level
Understand those forces and pressures which affect patient adversely.
Application of Sociology in Nursing
Needed in general to all the medical professions and especially Nursing because social conditions are sometimes responsible for health problems.
Sociology helps to understand the relationship between disease and social condition.
Sociological Terms
Values
Something that is personal and meaningful to someone.
Something that is displayed in words, symbols or behavior.
Influences the way we communicate with others, places
and objects and incidents in our life.
Provides direction in our lives.
Money or ethics or spirituality.
Expensive car
◦Look down or envy or jealousy.
Attitude
A group of beliefs or opinions that are directed to a certain
issue and is acquired by experience.
Not trusting dirty looking people.
Labeling and generalizing people.
Reflects the values of an individual.
Influences thoughts and understanding about something.
Values influence directly the behavior.
Beliefs
Cultural values that are practiced from one generation to
another.
Cannot enter religious places during menstruation.
Certain cultures you must remove your shoes if you want to
enter their home.
Special postnatal practices.
Traditional medicine.
Norms
A set of behavioral expectations
Rules and regulations of society that acts as a guideline for
the right or wrong behavior.
Who disobey may be punished formally or informally.
Some norms not accepted by society and punishable
formally are murder, theft, rape, incest and robbery.
Informal -social isolation, ostracized by society.
Formal -imprisonment, fines, deported, whipping, or capital punishment.
Some norms not acceptable by some society and punishable by
informal laws are adultery, premarital sex, prostitution, abortion.
Culture
Normative culture – rules and regulations that control the behavior of the individual as to right or wrong. Guidelines
for appropriate conduct.
Dowry, child marriage, incest.
Physical culture – physical objects that have been
Designed, built and shared by the members of the society. Churches or mosques or temples.
Cognitive culture – the whole thought that is possessed in
a society.
Workaholic Japanese, the business minded Chinese.
Received as part of his/her social heritage and may be reshaped and introduce changes, which becomes part of the heritage of the succeeding generation.
Eating with hands or chopsticks or fork and knife,
eating on banana leaves.
Shake hands or Salam or Namaste, or kissing on the
cheek or nose.
A complex social legacy which individuals acquire from
their group.
A kind of blueprint for all of life’s activities.
Everything socially learned through language and shared
by the members of a society and transmitted from generation to generation.
A system of norms and values comprising of knowledge,
beliefs, art, moral values, behavior, laws, tradition, and other expertise acquired by men as a member of society.
Social Class
Besides being important in social theory, the concept of
class as a collection of individuals sharing similar economic circumstances has been widely used in censuses
and in studies of social mobility.
Social classes provide their members with distinctive subcultures that prepare them for specialized functions in
society.
Also called class, a group of people within a society who
possess the same socioeconomic status.
Society
The group is older than the individual and new
members are offspring of the members.
It has an adequate system of economy, possess a
well-defined area and culture, with its own characteristics.
The society satisfies the social needs of the
members and allows political freedom.