The functionalist perspective to health: Functionalism believes that whatever you put into society you get back so in order to receive from society you must contribute. Functionalists don’t consider people as individuals but only that each person must fill their roles in society. They believe that everyone in society is aiming for the same goal and with other who don’t as deviant. “The state of optimum capacity of an individual for the effective performance of the roles and tasks for which s/he has been socialised” Talcott Parsons (1951) this defines how functionalists see the ill people in society. Functionalists believe that when a person becomes ill they take on a particular role in society, therefore dropping their current ones. In functionalism
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Anyone that is taking the sick role is automatically seen as deviant as they are no contributing to society. While on the sick role you don’t continue with normal social obligation, so you don’t go to work or stay in education. Although during the sick role people are still then receiving from society through others assisting them in getting better, such as doctors and GPs. While taking the sick role you then have a certain expectation and must take full responsibility to get better, this is by co-operating with the medical professionals and following the prescription given to you in order to get better. Functionalist believes that you have these certain rights and expectations that allow you to become healthy. When ill you should be offered the support from health professions and you are expected to leave this sick role as quickly as possible to function in society but you are then expected to be not treated as an individual but purely as a case that must co-operate. Once healthy again you are then able to go back to your normal roles that you had before, therefore you contribute back into …show more content…
The healthcare professionals will give the services to those that are in the upper class who are more dominant and have more power. It’s seen as the lower class who have the poorer health and people in the upper class are healthier purely because they have more money to spend on the care, resulting in a higher standard of health for the work force. Marxists also claim that the government allows companies to make a profit from making people ill from certain products, such as alcohol causing problems with people’s liver, drugs and smoking/tobacco causing cancers and other health conditions. By allowing these products to be sold society is then buying them making the companies richer and themselves less healthy.
Collectivism’s perspective on health: Collectivism also known as ‘community support’ defines society as having the responsibility to care for one and other. Each person in society has the right to be given support. This includes all those that are homeless, working, all ages, gender or whether they are disabled. All in society are to be given this support for whether it’s by a living benefit for children and disabled or housing for the homeless. Collectivists see society based in equality and that we are all the same resulting in us all being entitled to the same care with the same
Anyone that is taking the sick role is automatically seen as deviant as they are no contributing to society. While on the sick role you don’t continue with normal social obligation, so you don’t go to work or stay in education. Although during the sick role people are still then receiving from society through others assisting them in getting better, such as doctors and GPs. While taking the sick role you then have a certain expectation and must take full responsibility to get better, this is by co-operating with the medical professionals and following the prescription given to you in order to get better. Functionalist believes that you have these certain rights and expectations that allow you to become healthy. When ill you should be offered the support from health professions and you are expected to leave this sick role as quickly as possible to function in society but you are then expected to be not treated as an individual but purely as a case that must co-operate. Once healthy again you are then able to go back to your normal roles that you had before, therefore you contribute back into …show more content…
The healthcare professionals will give the services to those that are in the upper class who are more dominant and have more power. It’s seen as the lower class who have the poorer health and people in the upper class are healthier purely because they have more money to spend on the care, resulting in a higher standard of health for the work force. Marxists also claim that the government allows companies to make a profit from making people ill from certain products, such as alcohol causing problems with people’s liver, drugs and smoking/tobacco causing cancers and other health conditions. By allowing these products to be sold society is then buying them making the companies richer and themselves less healthy.
Collectivism’s perspective on health: Collectivism also known as ‘community support’ defines society as having the responsibility to care for one and other. Each person in society has the right to be given support. This includes all those that are homeless, working, all ages, gender or whether they are disabled. All in society are to be given this support for whether it’s by a living benefit for children and disabled or housing for the homeless. Collectivists see society based in equality and that we are all the same resulting in us all being entitled to the same care with the same