A Case Study: The American Medical System
Channel: LIVING SOCIOLOGY
Date: 11/05/2014

Using various analyses of the American Medical System to review concepts from Sociology 101 course.

Vocabulary from The CSN Sociology Student Legacy Wiki (http://sociologylegacy.pbworks.com/w/page/68428896/The%20CSN%20Sociology%20Student%20Legacy%20Wiki) 

3 Conditions for Cause and Effect
http://sociologylegacy.pbworks.com/w/page/68661918/3%20Conditions%20for%20Cause%20and%20Effect


3 Paradigms of Sociology
http://sociologylegacy.pbworks.com/w/page/68464488/3%20Paradigms%20of%20Sociology


Conflict Theory
http://sociologylegacy.pbworks.com/w/page/68661438/Conflict%20Theory


Constructionism
http://sociologylegacy.pbworks.com/w/page/68661448/Constructionist%20Perspective%20or%20Paradigm%20(Symbolic%20Interactionism)


Correlation
http://sociologylegacy.pbworks.com/w/page/68991843/Correlation(s)


Functionalism
http://sociologylegacy.pbworks.com/w/page/68661421/Functionalist%2C%20Functionalism


Gatekeeper Role
http://sociologylegacy.pbworks.com/w/page/69109027/Gatekeeper


Latent Function
http://sociologylegacy.pbworks.com/w/page/68978525/Latent%20function


Manifest Function
http://sociologylegacy.pbworks.com/w/page/68978463/Manifest%20function


Norms
http://sociologylegacy.pbworks.com/w/page/68978463/Manifest%20function


Pharmaceutical Industrial Complex
http://sociologylegacy.pbworks.com/w/page/75323069/Pharmaceutical%20Industrial%20Complex


Power
http://sociologylegacy.pbworks.com/w/page/68972902/Power


Roles
http://sociologylegacy.pbworks.com/w/page/68661810/Roles


Sanctions
http://sociologylegacy.pbworks.com/w/page/68661805/Sanctions


Social Problems
http://sociologylegacy.pbworks.com/w/page/68845474/Social%20Problems


Social Problems Claims
http://sociologylegacy.pbworks.com/w/page/69393351/Social%20Problems%20Claims


Socioeconomic Status
http://sociologylegacy.pbworks.com/w/page/78246530/Socioeconomic%20Status


Sociological Paradigms
http://sociologylegacy.pbworks.com/w/page/68661485/Sociological%20Paradigms


Status
http://sociologylegacy.pbworks.com/w/page/68661814/Status


Stigmatization
http://sociologylegacy.pbworks.com/w/page/68662765/Stigma


Technopoly
http://sociologylegacy.pbworks.com/w/page/69205276/Technopoly



For more information see the following:

http://www.pewresearch.org/daily-number/baby-boomers-retire/

http://www.policyprescriptions.org/the-oregon-health-insurance-experiment/

http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMsa022033

http://health.usnews.com/health-news/news/articles/2012/10/30/using-canadas-health-system-as-model-might-cut-us-costs-study

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK53942/

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines03/0821-04.htm

http://www.npr.org/2009/12/21/121609815/how-a-bone-disease-grew-to-fit-the-prescription

http://www.amazon.com/Oldtimers-Alzheimers-Organization-Contemporary-Ethnographic/dp/0892326972#