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Health Sociology
Study Course Description
Course Description Statuss:Approved
Course Description Version:6.00
Study Course Accepted:02.02.2024 12:25:36
| Study Course Information | |||||||||
| Course Code: | KSK_230 | LQF level: | Level 7 | ||||||
| Credit Points: | 2.00 | ECTS: | 3.00 | ||||||
| Branch of Science: | Communication Sciences | Target Audience: | Communication Science | ||||||
| Study Course Supervisor | |||||||||
| Course Supervisor: | Vents Sīlis | ||||||||
| Study Course Implementer | |||||||||
| Structural Unit: | Faculty of Social Sciences | ||||||||
| The Head of Structural Unit: | |||||||||
| Contacts: | Dzirciema street 16, Rīga, szf rsu[pnkts]lv | ||||||||
| Study Course Planning | |||||||||
| Full-Time - Semester No.1 | |||||||||
| Lectures (count) | 6 | Lecture Length (academic hours) | 2 | Total Contact Hours of Lectures | 12 | ||||
| Classes (count) | 6 | Class Length (academic hours) | 2 | Total Contact Hours of Classes | 12 | ||||
| Total Contact Hours | 24 | ||||||||
| Study course description | |||||||||
| Preliminary Knowledge: | None. | ||||||||
| Objective: | The aim of the course is to help students to link medical theory with empirical data obtained by sociologists on individual and social factors that influence health behaviour and choice of health style. | ||||||||
| Topic Layout (Full-Time) | |||||||||
| No. | Topic | Type of Implementation | Number | Venue | |||||
| 1 | Historical development of sociology of health. | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 2 | Concepts of health and illness, problems in defining them. | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 3 | Subjective experience of illness. | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 4 | Sociological interpretation of the body, the diseased and healthy body. | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 5 | Ageing, health and social exclusion. | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 6 | Health lifestyle theory. | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 7 | Main theoretical directions in sociology of health. | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 8 | Biomedical and biopsychosocial model. | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 9 | Sociology of doctor-patient relationship. | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 10 | Plastic surgery and body modification. | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 11 | Active ageing strategies. | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 12 | Distinction between five health lifestyles. | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| Assessment | |||||||||
| Unaided Work: | Systematical independent studies of literature. | ||||||||
| Assessment Criteria: | lecture and seminar attendance – 20%; participation in seminar discussions – 30%; group or individual presentation – 50%. | ||||||||
| Final Examination (Full-Time): | Exam (Written) | ||||||||
| Final Examination (Part-Time): | |||||||||
| Learning Outcomes | |||||||||
| Knowledge: | • Knowledge of the main concepts of sociology of health and medicine, the main theoretical directions of health sociology. • Knowledge of health lifestyle theories and active ageing strategies. • Knowledge and understanding of a biomedical and psychosocial model, holistic approach to the patient, sociology of doctor-patient relationship. | ||||||||
| Skills: | • Identify the most important sociological theories that explain health behaviour. • Understand and explain diseases in the context of experience and stigmatisation. • Explain life quality factors affecting a particular health lifestyle. | ||||||||
| Competencies: | Analyse and evaluate the individual and social factors affecting the individual’s health behaviour and the choice of a healthy lifestyle, using a holistic approach to assessing the situation. | ||||||||
| Bibliography | |||||||||
| No. | Reference | ||||||||
| Required Reading | |||||||||
| 1 | Bradby, H. E. (2012). Medicine, Health and Society. London: Sage Publications. | ||||||||
| 2 | Bowling, A. (2002). Research Methods in Health: Investigating Health and Health Services. Philadelphia: Open University Press. | ||||||||
| 3 | Cockerham, W. C., (1999). Health and Social Change in Russia and Eastern Europe. London: Routledge. | ||||||||
| 4 | Nettleton, S. and Watson, J. (eds.) (2005), The Body in Everyday Life, London: Routledge. | ||||||||
| 5 | Lupton, D. (2003). Medicine as Culture. 2nded. London: Sage Publications. | ||||||||
| 6 | Nettleton, S. (2006). The Sociology of Health and Illness, 2nded. Cambridge: PolityPress. | ||||||||
| 7 | Nettleton, S. and Gustafsson, U. (eds.) (2002). The Sociology of Health and Illness Reader. Cambridge: PolityPress. | ||||||||
| 8 | Sīlis, V. (2006 b). Rūpes par veselību un dzīves kvalitāte. Grām.: Dzīves kvalitāte Latvijā. Rīga: Zinātne, 179.–216. lpp. | ||||||||
| Additional Reading | |||||||||
| 1 | Burdjē, P. (2004). Praktiskā jēga. Rīga: Omnia Mea. | ||||||||
| 2 | Vēbers, M. (1905/2004). Reliģijas socioloģija. Rīga: FSI. | ||||||||
