CAT 2 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Sick Role, Medical Law, Socalled
17 Mar 2014
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What are the sources of deviance from the norms of society: deviance follows many different concepts, such as sin, illegal crimes, and not working. The sociological insight into the nature of order is that society, in order to maintain order, needs groups of people who can identify and control deviance. If this cannot happen, society can fall into disorder. i. It follows then that sickness is a form of deviance that must be controlled, and must be stigmatized as undesirable. No society can allow for everyone to be in the sick role. Physicians and doctors control this deviance by controlling entrance into the sick role, which can now be seen as a social construct, but not as a status of physical illness: e. g. Do they fall under the role of doctors to regulate and control, or is this something under your responsibility: e. g.
