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Scopes of Sociology in Nursing Dr. Srwa R. Rasul Sociology for Nurses Fall Semester/Week 2 2024-2025 Scope Of Sociology In Nursing  Hospitals Nurses play an important role in socializing the needs of the patients. Care is given not only in the main hospitals, but a...

Scopes of Sociology in Nursing Dr. Srwa R. Rasul Sociology for Nurses Fall Semester/Week 2 2024-2025 Scope Of Sociology In Nursing  Hospitals Nurses play an important role in socializing the needs of the patients. Care is given not only in the main hospitals, but also in nursing clinics, where a team of doctors, nurses, anaesthetists, physiotherapists, occupational therapists, sociologists, psychologists, lab and X-ray technicians, dieticians, all join their hands to give complete care to patients. Community Health Centers The main function of nurses is to train all health workers to socialize with people in the community and help them create awareness about the health needs and illness and the need to approach the health center when there is any illness in their families.  Hospice Care Hospice is a health institution which provides extended health services to the people after discharge from the hospital, especially for old age people with terminal illnesses, poor people who cannot afford the health care, and orphans. Staff nurses are trained to socialize with people with such illnesses Occupational or Industrial Health-care Services This is to handle the workers in the factories to treat their illnesses, or any accidents or injuries happened during their work. Hence, it is important for the nurses to have the basic understanding about the occupational hazards and communicate with the industrial owners to protect the workers in the industries Counselling Units Counselling units are always available in hospitals, community health centers, mental health hospitals, colleges, schools, industries, and also in all the different professional institutions and companies, where social workers, psychologists, and nurses are trained to support the people and provide guidance and counselling to them. Prisons Nursing care has no limit and it has penetrated even into the jail in order to care for the prisoners, who are emotionally unstable. Counselling cells are always active to tackle the prisoners to calm their mind. Adequate training and knowledge on social problems is important to handle the prisoners Old Age Homes Geriatric homes are increasing, where both old males and females are pushed into. Socializing with them and understanding their problems and meeting their needs is always a big challenge and it needs lots of training and patience, especially knowledge on problems of the family and its structure. Orphanages Since they are orphans they have serious emotional and the social problems and definitely need help and support to come up in their lives, and nurses are there always to counsel them and train the caregivers to treat the children of all ages Palliative Centers These centers are established to care patients with incurable illnesses, for example, cancer, AIDS, neuromuscular degenerative illnesses. Nurses are trained to treat and support such patients. Diversional therapies, such as role plays, dramas, puppet shows by nurses are provided to rehabilitate the minds of such patients. https://youtu.be/qoE0hcj7aMk?si=rbnorig9Rr4HsBBJ Juvenile Homes This is the prison for the child prisoners who are arrested and admitted in the jail having involving in social evils. They need lot of emotional support and encouragement to bring back their normal lives. As the society does not accept such children quickly as others when they come out of the jails, so the children should be taught with alternative therapies to stabilize their minds to prevent them from repeating the social evils. Mental Health Centers Every mental health hospital has its own guidance and counselling unit with social workers, psychologists, and nurses to handle the unsound patients since their opinion is very important for the psychiatrists to judge their mental health illnesses. Rehabilitation Centers Rehabilitation centers mean special homes for children who are physically, mentally unaided, for example, autistic center, spastic center, deaf and dumb schools. Society The concept of society: The concept of society refers to a relatively large grouping or collectivity of people who share more or less common and distinct culture, occupying a certain geographical locality, with the feeling of identity or belongingness, having all the necessary social arrangements or insinuations to sustain itself. Basic features of society 1. a society is usually a relatively large grouping of people in terms of size. In a very important sense, thus, society may be regarded as the largest and the most complex social group that sociologists study. Basic features of society 2. its members share common and distinct culture. This sets it apart from the other population groups Basic features of society 3. a society also has a definite, limited space or territory. The populations that make up a given society are thus locatable in a definite geographical area. The people consider that area as their own Basic features of society 4. The people who make up a society have the feeling of identity and belongingness. There is also the feeling of oneness. Such identity felling emanates from the routinized pattern of social interaction that exists among the people and the various groups that make up the society. Basic features of society 5. members of a society are considered to have a common origin and common historical experience. They feel that they have also common destiny. Basic features of society 6. members of a society may also speak a common mother tongue or a major language that may serve as a national heritage. Basic features of society 7. A society is autonomous and independent in the sense that it has all the necessary social institutions and organizational arrangements to sustain the system. However, a society is not an island, in the sense that societies are interdependent. There has always been inter– societal relations. People interact socially, economically and politically. Conceptualizing Society at Various Levels Generally, all people of the earth may be considered as a society. The earth is a common territory for the whole world's people. All people of the earth share common origin; inhabit common planet; have common biopsychological unity; and exhibit similar basic interests, desires and fears;and are heading towards common destiny.  At another level, every continent may be considered as a society. Thus, we may speak of the European society, the African society, the Asian society, the Latin American society, etc. This may be because, each of these continents share its own territory, historical experiences, shared culture, and so on.  Going far farther still, another level of society is that within each nation state, there may be ethno-linguistically distinct groups of people having a territory that they consider as their own. They are thus societies in their own right. Some Such society may extend beyond the boundaries of nation-states. Example, the Kurdish society inhabit in Iraq, Iran, Syria and Turkey  Types or Categories of Societies Sociologists classify societies into various categories depending on certain criteria. A. One such criterion is level of economic and technological development attained by countries. Thus, the countries of the world are classified as First World, Second World, and Third World  First World Countries are those which are highly industrially advanced and economically rich, such as the USA, Japan, Britain, France, Italy, Germany, and Canada and so on The Second World Countries are also industrially advanced but not as much as the first category  The Third World societies are thus which are least developed, or in the process of developing. Some writers add a fourth category, namely, Fourth World countries. These countries may be regarded as the "poorest of the poor. Another criterion for society classification is temporal succession and the major source of economic organization 1. hunting and gathering societies: simplest and oldest society that is based on hunting and gathering.  2. Pastoral and horticultural societies are those whose livelihood is based on pasturing of animals, such as cattle, camels, sheep and goats. 3. Horticultural societies: are those whose economy is based on cultivating plants by the use of simple tools, such as digging sticks, hoes, axes, etc 4. Agricultural societies: This society which still is dominant in most parts of the world, is based on large-scale agriculture, which largely depends on ploughs using animal labor 5. Industrial Society: society is one in which goods are produced by machine powered by fuels instead of by animal and human energy. 6. Post-industrial society: This is a society based on information, services and high technology, rather than on raw materials and manufacturing.