Essay On The Sick Role

Concept: The concept in chapter eight is to help show how the world views the sick role, and how society plays into this role. Parsons based the sick role on the assumption that a sick person is not deliberately sick and that illnesses occur as a result of motivated exposure to infection or injury (Parsons p. 170). Some people give in to the sick role to use it as an excuse to have lack of responsibilities of their actions (Parsons p.170). Society deals with deviant roles by either viewing them as criminals or providing therapeutic care for them to help reduce the deviancy role portrayed (Parsons p.170). Both “punishments” include a higher order up, such as, law enforcements, doctors, and even social agencies to help solve the issues in a way society feels is acceptable (Parsons p.171). People who are sick are viewed as disabled people who cannot do anything for themselves and need assistance making people who are sick have the

The racial slurs used by them were overlooked because they were seen to have a condition or was sick and misunderstood their actions. All of these celebrities playing the sick role exempted them from having to take one the actual responsibility of their actions like Parson stated on p. 171 in the book on number one and two of his specific four basic categories of the sick role. They all “got help” by allowing someone of higher order (a professional) to help them “get better,” and teach them what was wrong by their actions showing cooperation with the physician, number three and four on page 171 of Parsons specific basic four categories of the sick role. Although studies proved that racism was a major mental health illness, in today’s society it is classified as abnormal behavior which needs psychological