My topic : Music Industry This is the online paper that I found: The American Health Care Industry is a very large social institution. The health care system is designed to adapt to the communities served (Schaefer, 2009), it is a formal organization structured for efficiency and a specific purpose. The three major sociological orientations are functionalist, conflict, and interactionist; we will discuss each perspective as it pertains to the health care industry. Each perspective has its strengths and weaknesses, from high function to discrimination through social class, to stability and lack of accessibility. The functionalist perspective attempts to analyze the industry’s major tasks and how it maintains its survival. According to Schaefer (2009) the health care industry effectively replaces personnel, trains new recruits, provides an important service to its members and its community, preserves order through strict regulations and operating procedures, and maintains its purpose through motivation for social change and charitable characteristics. The functional perspective emphasizes the contribution the health care industry makes to our society’s overall stability. Health care provides basic protections against the spread of contagious diseases, maintains awareness of healthy practices, and contributes to the wellness of the community. Conflict within the health care system can present as greed, economic influence, unavailability to specific groups, or prejudice privilege provided to insured patients. Medical care has become increasingly bureaucratic; many clinics and doctors’ offices are overwhelmed with paperwork and regulations which can prevent them effectively helping the ailing masses. Health insurance is used to supplement the outrageous cost of medical care and is out of reach to many United States residents. New data indicates 50.7 million Americans are without private health care insurance and the outlook is grim due to the erosion of the economy and employer-based insurance plans (Greenstein, 2010). Federal programs attempt to provide basic or restricted coverage to the one out of every six Americans stretching the systems already limited resources. These constraints leave the uninsured with few choices, less comprehensive care, long wait times, and increased frustration within poor communities. The interactionalist would be interested in the effects of limited health care on a micro level. The specific communities most affected by health care coverage are the elderly, children, and people living below the poverty line. According to Schaefer (2009), interactionist theorist would emphasize that our social behavior is influenced by the social roles we accept. By accepting that health care is difficult to obtain or the system unfairly represents wealthier patrons, the lower classes of people resort to alternate means including local clinics, alternative medicine, internet applications such as WebMD and other community resource.

1. My topic : Music Industry
This is the online paper that I found:
The American Health Care Industry is a very large social
institution. The health care system is designed to adapt to the
communities served (Schaefer, 2009), it is a formal organization
structured for efficiency and a specific purpose. The three major
sociological orientations are functionalist, conflict, and
interactionist; we will discuss each perspective as it pertains to
the health care industry. Each perspective has its strengths and
weaknesses, from high function to discrimination through social
class, to stability and lack of accessibility.
The functionalist perspective attempts to analyze the industry’s
major tasks and how it maintains its survival. According to
Schaefer (2009) the health care industry effectively replaces
personnel, trains new recruits, provides an important service to
its members and its community, preserves order through strict
regulations and operating procedures, and maintains its purpose
through motivation for social change and charitable
characteristics. The functional perspective emphasizes the
contribution the health care industry makes to our society’s
overall stability. Health care provides basic protections against
the spread of contagious diseases, maintains awareness of
healthy practices, and contributes to the wellness of the
community.
Conflict within the health care system can present as greed,
economic influence, unavailability to specific groups, or
prejudice privilege provided to insured patients. Medical care
has become increasingly bureaucratic; many clinics and doctors’
offices are overwhelmed with paperwork and regulations which
can prevent them effectively helping the ailing masses. Health
insurance is used to supplement the outrageous cost of medical

2. care and is out of reach to many United States residents. New
data indicates 50.7 million Americans are without private health
care insurance and the outlook is grim due to the erosion of the
economy and employer-based insurance plans (Greenstein,
2010). Federal programs attempt to provide basic or restricted
coverage to the one out of every six Americans stretching the
systems already limited resources. These constraints leave the
uninsured with few choices, less comprehensive care, long wait
times, and increased frustration within poor communities.
The interactionalist would be interested in the effects of limited
health care on a micro level. The specific communities most
affected by health care coverage are the elderly, children, and
people living below the poverty line. According to Schaefer
(2009), interactionist theorist would emphasize that our social
behavior is influenced by the social roles we accept. By
accepting that health care is difficult to obtain or the system
unfairly represents wealthier patrons, the lower classes of
people resort to alternate means including local clinics,
alternative medicine, internet applications such as WebMD and
other community resources. As the community of the uninsured
grows as does the demand for centralized and government
provided programs. The growing number of people requiring
assistance will influence future legislation and can change
public opinion on the necessity of adequate care for everyone,
eventually lowering fatality rates and increasing public
awareness on the importance of healthy families.
The strength and weakness of each perspective lies in its
definition of the institution. The functionalist view shows us the
power and influence the health care industry has on society, its
ability to sustain itself and grow. The functionalist view does
not specify how society does or does not benefit from the
growing institution. The conflict perspective shows us the
potential downfall of the industry, the alienation and lack of
care for low-income or unemployed people. The perspective

3. does not analyze the benefits organized health care provides but
it can suggest areas needing reform. Interactionalist show the
impact of available health care on specific communities but it
does not consider the wider implications of deficiency.
Our family can most closely identify with the conflict
perspective because of the high unemployment rate in our area,
the central valley of California. Although we do have medical
insurance our rates have steadily increased over the last few
years and our overall coverage has decreased. It is blatantly
clear how difficult it would be to obtain adequate coverage if
our employers were not providing it to us. We have friends who
do not go the Dr. unless absolutely necessary and we support a
generalized plan that would at least take care of children who
can potentially spread viruses and diseases without prejudice to
the surrounding population through their public access to
schools.
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