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Multicultural Groups of Malaysia - Coggle Diagram
Multicultural Groups of Malaysia
Sociological Perspectives of Health and
Illness in a Multicultural Society
Norms, values and ideals with regards to health and disease.
Psychosocial level
Mental stress and strain.
Physical level
Social class, environment, nutrition, housing.
Cultural level
Social milieu, attitudes, beliefs, norms, values.
Physical Level
Societies organize resources
Cope with health hazards
Deliver medical care
Health education and campaigns
Environmental sanitation and protection
Rehabilitative medicine
Medical, vocational, social, psychological
Social, Cultural, Political, Economic climate of the country
Influence of mass media
Print, films, electronic, internet
Extraordinary power to shape public perception and information
Fashion, dressing, lifestyles, food
Psychosocial Level
Stress, mental health, depression, suicides
Substance abuse & addiction
Unemployment, escalating cost of living, Loans, bankruptcy,
Keeping up with neighbors
Types of homes
Changes in family structure –nuclear –lack of support
Type of marriages and marital breakdown
Domestic violence, spouse and child abuse,
Harassment at workplace including sexual
Anger and stress management
Sleep/ rest / recreation
Urbanization –overcrowding and social ills
Industrialization –pollution and environmental related diseases
Migration –stress, depression, culture shock
Cultural Level
Regulates interrelationships of man as a member of a social group.
Customs
Long established habits and uses of the people passed on for generations, informal means
of social control –universal.
Routine acts of daily life people enjoy with social l sanction –greeting.
Values systems –believes in what is right and wrong.
Habits, Beliefs, Attitudes
Morals
Laws concerning concepts of goodness and badness -nonviolence, truth, justice, equality.
Norms
Standards of group behaviour
Groups tend to develop the characteristic ways of doing things normally.
Embodied in laws, customs, traditions and regulations, unwritten laws.
Law
Reinforcement of the mores –quarantine
Religion
Attitude towards a superhuman power
Superstitions, animism, magic and rituals
Mores
(the fixed morally binding customs of a particular group have tended to withdraw and
develop a self-sufficient society of their own, with distinct and rigid mores).
Eating with right hand, not picking your nose in public, marriage patterns.