SOC243H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Lyme Disease, Sick Role
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In turn they are expected to act consistent with the obligation to try to get better (e. g. seek medical help & comply with doctors orders) This doesn"t really work unless it"s for acute illnesses. Parsons is theorizing with ideal types" and using the oversimplified conception to get at something look for variation/guide post when you think about things. The doctor provides a legitimate claim: but you play sick role towards family members to do avoid responsibility. In other cases you have be ascribed the status of sickness (mental health labeling) when you don"t feel that way. Stigma discrediting you as a responsible adult. Sickness is individual, defined through micro-level process, in contrast medicalization involves broader cultural processes. Conceptual medicalization: the process through which a condition or behaviour becomes defined as a medical problem or through which the definition of an illness is broadened. Zola: process of increasing involvement of medicine in the management of society making the labels.
