Talcott Parsons' "Sick Role" Revisited : An anthropological commentary on key concept of medical sociology

Mitzub'ixi Qu'q Ch'ij

☆From my anthropological perspectivism, this paper examines in Talcott Parsons' "Sick Role" theory, one of the most important concepts of medical sociology. This paper has three divisions that I have worked; In the fi rst part, there is my general review of the sick role theory of one of Parsons' opera, The Social System (1951). In the second part, Series of critiques on Parsons' thesis on the sick role are introduced by indicating counterevidence that cannot aff ord to his theory. And in the third part, three points of author's recommendation are mentioned, so to say, that the theory should be required renewal by absorbing in the theories on social aspect of illness and healing process, introducing chronological aspect to dynamic analysis on the sick role theory, and elaborating with comparison between sick role and health role.

From my anthropological perspectivism, this paper examines in Talcott Parsons' "Sick Role" theory, one of the most important concepts of medical sociology. This paper has three divisions that I have worked; In the fi rst part, there is my general review of the sick role theory of one of Parsons' opera, The Social System (1951). In the second part, Series of critiques on Parsons' thesis on the sick role are introduced by indicating counterevidence that cannot aff ord to his theory. And in the third part, three points of author's recommendation are mentioned, so to say, that the theory should be required renewal by absorbing in the theories on social aspect of illness and healing process, introducing chronological aspect to dynamic analysis on the sick role theory, and elaborating with comparison between sick role and health role.
[A]n outsider's perspective can provide new insights, because it sidesteps the shared premises and practices -- Steve Joshua Heims [1993:viii]
Consider what eff ects, which might conceivably have practical bearings, we conceive the object of our conception to have. Then, our conception of these effects is the whole of our conception of the object -- Charles S. Peirce(1878)[Peirce 1958:402]

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Heims, Steve J., (1993) Constructing a social science for postwar America: The cybernetics group, 1946-1953. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press.
Parsons, Talcott (1964) Social structure and personality. New York: Free Press.
Parsons, Talcott (1978) Action theory and the human condition. New York: Free Press.
Peirce, Charles S. (1878) How to Make Our Ideas Clear. Popular Science Monthly 12 (January 1878), pp. 286-302 (In “Collected Papers of Charles Sanders Peirce, vol.5, Charles Hartshorne and Paul Weiss, eds. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press)

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