SOSA 2503 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Sick Role, Total Institution, Post-Structuralism

• School: Dalhousie University
• Department: Soc & Social Anthropology
• Course: SOSA 2503
• Professor: Fiona Martin

Document Summary

Marx, navarro, and the social production of disease: other major sociological perspectives on health and illness: Symbolic interactionism: stigma and the total institution". Key: look for overlaps between readings and lectures. Parsons and the sick role: a social model of illness, sickness is socially and biologically dysfunctional; it incapacitates effective performance of social roles, must therefore be managed, the sick role = sanctioned deviance, comes with rights and obligations. He broke society down into what he saw as being their constitutive parts he saw society as how a biologist saw a biological organism. The incredibly complex systems, that in order to function, must have all of the subsystems within them that together, work to make societies function. He was interested in sickness as an example for a potential for disrupting society. He was interested in the potential of sickness of breaking down the system they can"t perform their normal social roles when they are sick.