Classical Sociosomatic Theory and its Non-classiccal Version. Sociology of Health and Sickness and its Contribution to Discussion about Somatic Disord Cover Image

Klasyczna socjosomatyka i jej nieklasyczna odmiana. Wkład socjologii zdrowia i choroby w dyskurs o zaburzeniach somatycznych i etiologii chorób
Classical Sociosomatic Theory and its Non-classiccal Version. Sociology of Health and Sickness and its Contribution to Discussion about Somatic Disord

Author(s): Dominika Łęcka
Subject(s): Social Sciences
Published by: Instytut Filozofii i Socjologii Polskiej Akademii Nauk
Keywords: sociology of health and sickness; sociosomatic; somatization; psychosomatic; local biologies

Summary/Abstract: This article provides new insight into somatization and its causes. It is the response to psychosomacontext paradigm visible in sociological idea of “functional illness”. It discusses foundations of classic meaning of sociosomatic paradigm. Based itself on the weakness of classical sociosomatic the text gives the new version of it. Is it possible to find a sociological category that would be as an equivalent of stress in the psychosomatic paradigm? Is it possible that its function and influence would be the same in the sociosomatic view? Do sociosomatic illnesses exist? This article is the first attempt to answer these questions.

  • Issue Year: 196/2010
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 127-146
  • Page Count: 20
  • Language: Polish