SOSC 111 Lecture Notes - Talcott Parsons, Sluggish Schizophrenia, Sick Role
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Where behaviors, activities or conditions are given a medical meaning. Medical practices are developed to control the now medically defined problem. The process of medicalization has meant to domain of medicine has expanded. That medicine is a form of social control by individualizing social problems. Institutions composed of statuses and roles: expectations of particular behavior, expectations have character of rules or norms. Care for the sick institutionalized in the health professions, not family. The nuclear family cant take on the role of looking after the sick. Shift to the sick being cared for by the institution of medicine. Remove the power of the mother and the nurturing environment of the home as it leads to less people wanting to get better, a motivation to stay sick. Health = the state of optimum capacity of an individual for the effective performance of the roles and tasks for which he (sic) has been socialized .
