Novak is a researcher who addresses questions about the personal experience of illness: How does illness shape individuals' daily lives? How does a chronic illness affect an individual's self-identity? What school of sociology mentioned in the textbook does he probably belong to?

a. symbolic interactionist
b. functionalist
c. structuralist
d. postmodernist


Answer: a. symbolic interactionist

Sociology

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