Unit 8 Sociological Perspectives In Health And Social Care
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Unit 7: sociological perspectives for health and social care
Functionalism was a dominant perspective during the 40’s and 50’. It is best understood by comparing society to the human body as they believe everything has a function, for example, people in society have to work together like organs in order to deal with problems and ensure that society is running positively. Talcott Parsons believed that one of the main role of an institution is to be governed by norms to ensure that the people in their society are behaving acceptable. The institutions each have a function as it helps contribute to the stability of society or the social system, for example, one of the family function is socialization which involves teaching your children the correct way of how to behave inside society. Talcott Parsons (1951) also, talks about the sick role theory which describes the roles and responsibility of those who are ill as when they are sick, they are forming a deviance behavior and are positively sanctioned through legitimization.
One of the criticism of functionalism is that they tend to ignore conflict, however it also ignores inequalities of gender, class and race which causes conflict. Another criticism of functionalism is that Durkheim’s work has developed a more …show more content…
The Functionalist approach to health and ill-health originates from Talcott Parsons. He says in order for society to work efficiently all the members of society need to be healthy. He sees illness as a form of deviance as the ill members are playing the sick role, if people claimed they were sick they had specific rights and new responsibilities, these included not participating in social obligations like going to school, college or work. Being cared for so family members should care for the sick member. Also, the ill member should take responsibility by trying their best to get better to continue playing their role in society and communicate with their doctor in order to get better
Unit 7: sociological perspectives for health and social care
Functionalism was a dominant perspective during the 40’s and 50’. It is best understood by comparing society to the human body as they believe everything has a function, for example, people in society have to work together like organs in order to deal with problems and ensure that society is running positively. Talcott Parsons believed that one of the main role of an institution is to be governed by norms to ensure that the people in their society are behaving acceptable. The institutions each have a function as it helps contribute to the stability of society or the social system, for example, one of the family function is socialization which involves teaching your children the correct way of how to behave inside society. Talcott Parsons (1951) also, talks about the sick role theory which describes the roles and responsibility of those who are ill as when they are sick, they are forming a deviance behavior and are positively sanctioned through legitimization.
One of the criticism of functionalism is that they tend to ignore conflict, however it also ignores inequalities of gender, class and race which causes conflict. Another criticism of functionalism is that Durkheim’s work has developed a more …show more content…
The Functionalist approach to health and ill-health originates from Talcott Parsons. He says in order for society to work efficiently all the members of society need to be healthy. He sees illness as a form of deviance as the ill members are playing the sick role, if people claimed they were sick they had specific rights and new responsibilities, these included not participating in social obligations like going to school, college or work. Being cared for so family members should care for the sick member. Also, the ill member should take responsibility by trying their best to get better to continue playing their role in society and communicate with their doctor in order to get better