Health and Illness

Health and Illness

In the perspectives of biomedical and sociological conceptions, illness and health are completely two different phenomenons. The sociology of health and illness is explained in five theoretical traditions.

Parsonsian functionalism: it views at the position the sick person in the society. The focus is given on how being ill is awarded a precise appearance in human societies so that the stability and cohesion of social can be maintained.

Symbolic interactionism is more focused on observing the relation between the different factors in the play of health and illness. These factors explain that how illness and the subjective experience ...