Sick Role Sociology
Sick role in nursing care
-developed from functionalist perspective
Right: exemption from normal social roles; from responsibility for self-care
Obligation: to want to get well speedily; to consult expert medical opinion; cooperate with medical experts and therapists throughout their illness
- patients and health care professionals have different expectations of patients' hospital role. The current emphasis on encouraging patients to participate in their own care is in direct conflict with one of the obligations of their sick role, which is to unquestioningly comply with the opinions of health professionals.
-The hospital sick role is therefore a form of dependence, with patients relying on health care professionals to meet their physical …show more content…
What is sociological imagination? Why nurses study sociology?
-Sociological imagination enable nurse to move beyond common sense explanation to the development of a more critical approach to nursing practice. To understand that personal trouble is not “a person’s problem,” but the society. E.g. teenage sex worker: not because they are “too poor,” but they want to earn a lot of money to buy brand-name purse, shoes… which they learned it from mass media; distorted “sex” concept which they dun care how easy they can be affected with STD.
What is socialization?
Socialization is a life-long process by which we learn the ways of a particular group. It is mainly affected by …show more content…
Henslin (2004:71) offers the example of a high school student who, upon hearing he had been accepted to a university, began to wear college student-type cloths.
Agents of socialization which affect health??
Family: primary group to learn from immediate people to meet all needs of the children
e.g. eating out all the time may indicate high BMI, high cholesterol
e.g. smoking in the house increase the risk of allergy or predispose lung cancer; if family member smoke, increase smoking behavior for teenager.
School: teach children to think and behave logically & legally, prepare organizational life
e.g. Eat meal & exercise regularly; sleep and wake up early due to regular school schedule;
Peer group: breaking away from school or family
e.g. teenager run away from home and develop drug addition, drinking, or smoking problem while wandering in the street or gathering with friends
Mass media: distortion &
-developed from functionalist perspective
Right: exemption from normal social roles; from responsibility for self-care
Obligation: to want to get well speedily; to consult expert medical opinion; cooperate with medical experts and therapists throughout their illness
- patients and health care professionals have different expectations of patients' hospital role. The current emphasis on encouraging patients to participate in their own care is in direct conflict with one of the obligations of their sick role, which is to unquestioningly comply with the opinions of health professionals.
-The hospital sick role is therefore a form of dependence, with patients relying on health care professionals to meet their physical …show more content…
What is sociological imagination? Why nurses study sociology?
-Sociological imagination enable nurse to move beyond common sense explanation to the development of a more critical approach to nursing practice. To understand that personal trouble is not “a person’s problem,” but the society. E.g. teenage sex worker: not because they are “too poor,” but they want to earn a lot of money to buy brand-name purse, shoes… which they learned it from mass media; distorted “sex” concept which they dun care how easy they can be affected with STD.
What is socialization?
Socialization is a life-long process by which we learn the ways of a particular group. It is mainly affected by …show more content…
Henslin (2004:71) offers the example of a high school student who, upon hearing he had been accepted to a university, began to wear college student-type cloths.
Agents of socialization which affect health??
Family: primary group to learn from immediate people to meet all needs of the children
e.g. eating out all the time may indicate high BMI, high cholesterol
e.g. smoking in the house increase the risk of allergy or predispose lung cancer; if family member smoke, increase smoking behavior for teenager.
School: teach children to think and behave logically & legally, prepare organizational life
e.g. Eat meal & exercise regularly; sleep and wake up early due to regular school schedule;
Peer group: breaking away from school or family
e.g. teenager run away from home and develop drug addition, drinking, or smoking problem while wandering in the street or gathering with friends
Mass media: distortion &