Canadian society was created by a colonial legacy that would affect many Indigenous communities and their health. The colonial legacy would create systemic racism and structural inequalities in healthcare, which are caused by assumptions that have been placed on Indigenous people for years. An assumption that is written about in this essay is alcoholism and homelessness and Indigenous people are neglected in healthcare facilities due to these assumptions. The theories of critical sociology can help with understanding the structural inequalities and power dynamics that affect Indigenous people, and symbolic interactionism helps us understand the interactions and meanings that will contribute to the neglect of Brian Sinclair. In this essay, I will be analyzing the death of…show more content… The textbook, it talks about the medicalization of deviance, which is the process that changes “bad” behaviour to “sick” behaviour and it gives an example of how society views alcohol and alcoholism (Little, 2016). In Indigenous communities, many people suffer from alcoholism due to trauma that has been inflicted on them, but they are faced with racism in healthcare settings due to biases that healthcare workers have towards them. Methodology To analyze both critical sociology and symbolic interactionism, I found two articles, “Ignored to Death: Systemic Racism in the Canadian Healthcare System” and “Out of Sight,” about Brian Sinclair, an Indigenous man who went to a healthcare facility for a treatable bladder infection and was neglected by the staff and found dead after 34 hours being at the healthcare facility (Guun, n.d.). I have read the articles and analyzed that there is both a comparison of critical sociology and symbolic interactionism and a contrast of both
