Describe Talcott Parsons’s concept of “sick roles,” and the three specific roles identified by Eliot Friedson
Please provide the best answer for the statement.
1. A sick role describes the learned social script for how to “be” sick, and how people around us are expected to act when we are sick.
2. The first role identified by Friedson is the conditional sick role: people who are expected to get better soon are allowed to occupy the sick role as long as they are acting in ways that will eventually improve their health.
3. The second sick role is the unconditionally legitimate sick role: people who are permanently sick, have a terminal illness, or are otherwise sick in such a way that they cannot recover through their own actions may unconditionally occupy the sick role with no moral disapproval.
4. The third is the illegitimate sick role: people who are seen as being sick because of something they did or did not do are not allowed to occupy the sick role without moral judgement.
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