HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE

Sociological Context of Health and Social Care



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Sociological Context of Health and Social Care

Assignment 1

How political, social and economic constructs can be used to categorise society

The political, social and economic constructs can be utilized to categorize the society according to age, gender, ethnicity, social class, households, partnership formation and relationship breakdown. Social constructionism, or more recently socio constructionism relational constructionism is a theory of sociological and psychological knowledge, which considers how social phenomena develop in particular social contexts (Eisenstadt 2003, 100). Within constructionist thought, a social construct is a concept or practice that may appear natural and obvious to those who accept it, but in reality is an invention or artefact of a culture or a particular society. A major focus of social constructionism is to uncover the ways in which individuals and groups involved in the creation of social perception of reality. Involves looking at the ways in which they are created, institutionalized the social phenomena, and made ??into tradition by humans (Harper 2003, 121). When people interact, realizing that their perceptions of reality are related, and how she acts on this understanding of common sense, perception of reality is reinforced. Since this common sense knowledge is negotiated by people, human characterisations, meaning and social institutions are presented as part of an objective reality. It is in this sense can be said that reality is socially constructed (Giddens 2006, 43). The aging part of the population is effected by the social contructs. As the individuals age, their roles changes in the society. The changes in the pension age and other benefits can have a major impact on the aging population. Those individuals rely on their pension to support their families and any changes made in the process will have an impact on the whole family.

Politics in the community always comes out in certain specific types and directions. Depending on the subject of politics, nature and scope of problems and issues that it solves (scope management, volume, scale, etc.). There are different types of classification policy. So, if we consider the policy in the broadest sense, then, from the perspective of its subjects, can be identified: public policy, party politics, politics, social or corporate group (for example, the policy of the nobility), the policies of the organisation (e.g., policy administration firm), and the leader of a particular policy (e.g., policies mayor). However, more often under the policy to understand government policy - that is public policy. There are different classifications of types of public policy (Eisenstadt 2003, 100). The policy is closely linked and varied with all spheres of social life: economics, ethics, and law, spiritual, religious and other spheres. It should not rule over them, but it can and should provide an enabling environment for effective functioning of all parts of the social system. Thus, the main features of the policy are its versatility, consistency, universality. An important purpose of the political sphere of society is to manage the society in ...