Sociological theories CorePH

Sociological Theories and
Perspectives in
Understanding Health
Supriyati
Department of Health Behavior, Environment, and Social Medicine
Faculty of Medicine, UGM

What is sociology ?
Ilmu yang mempelajari tentang
masyarakat
Ilmu yang mempelajari hubungan antar
individu (perilaku sosial)
Ilmu yang mempelajari tentang fakta sosial

Paradigma
Fakta sosial
Definisi sosial

Perilaku sosial

Paradigma Fakta Sosial

Teori fungsionalisme struktural
Teori konflik
Teori sistem

Teori sosiologi makro

Paradigma Definisi Sosial
Action theory

Simbolic interactionism
Phenomenology
Manusia adalah aktor kreatif dan kehidupan tidak statis

Paradigma Perilaku Sosial
Behavioral sociology

Exchange theory

Paradigma fakta sosial






Teori fungsionalisme structural
Teori konflik
Teori sistem
Teori sosiologi makro

#1.Teori Fungsionalisme struktural (Konsensus)
• Focuses on how society is organized and how social institutions meet
the needs of people living within a collectivity
• Like an organism
• As understanding human body ---- human social system (has many
parts/institution such as education, religion, economy, politic) 
These institutions secure the evolution and growth of society
• The consensus focus upon the good of the overall society; sub-groups
of society must be willing to sacrifice for the good of the whole

Teori fungsionalisme struktural - Teori konflik - Teori sistem -Teori sosiologi makro


The characteristics of society
• Well planned uniformity
• Stability and equilibrium between different parts
• Consensus of the main values
• Every institution has a function which helps society to
remain stable
• What is, is good – atural sele tio of good
institutions/functions

4 key functions of social system
Adaptation
Goal attainment
Integration
Latency

• production and distribution of goods and services:
The economy

• writing and enforcing of the rules: The policy

• procreation and socialization of children; integration
of social activities: Family and education
• a system of values and beliefs: Religion

Social action taken
places as a

dynamic
equilibrium

Dinamic
equilibrium means
society is always

Social institution

must adjust to
changes in other

changing


institution

- Unprepared to address changes that occur due to misuse of
power
- highly useful in understanding ongoing adjustments to social
institutions in response to changes in the other institutions

Research question :
Mapping, describing, and analysing
Positive function

Institution

The dysfunctions

Example :
Could you please
explain the health
seeking behavior

pattern after the
national health
insurance ?

#2. Teori Konflik
• the fundamental processes of society are competition and conflict,
rather than cooperation for the good of the whole
• All social systems have a small minority of powerful elites
• Social action takes place within an arena of conflict and exploitation
between dominant and secondary segments of society  must be
anticipated
• Focus on the material condition such as clothing, education, access to
health care

Teori fungsionalisme struktural - Teori konflik - Teori sistem -Teori sosiologi makro

#2. Teori Konflik
Wewenang dan posisi
Distribusi kekuasaan tidak merata
Penyalahgunaan kekuasaan


Konflik secara sistematis
Teori fungsionalisme struktural - Teori konflik - Teori sistem -Teori sosiologi makro

konflik

Integritas

4 fungsi konflik
Memelihara solidaritas

Membentuk aliansi
Mengaktifkan peran individu
Fungsi komunikasi

Conflict in modern sociology
Not only focusing on class struggle as Marx
did, but on the overall power structure in
society, such as conflicts between different
groups of interests

Producers and consumers, employers
and employed, among religions,
teachers and students, parents and
kids, personality and culture

Conflict cause social change
In every society there are conflicts; conflict is the driving force of
social change

Conflict does not necessary mean violence, rather tension,
competition or disagreement about objectives and values,
conflict of interests

Conflict cause social change

conflict

Social
change


Conflict does not necessary mean violence, rather tension,
competition or disagreement about objectives and values,
conflict of interests

Deklarasi Keparakan : a community deal
Kesepakatan bersama :
1.Tidak merokok di dalam
pertemuan
2.Tidak merokok di dalam
rumah

Kantor kelurahan yang bebas asap rokok

Perubahan sosial
yang terjadi karena
“konflik”

Research question
Mapping of power-relations


Someone is making benefit of the situation at the expense of
someone else

How can we dissolve the conflict? Can there be a win-win solution?

Paradigma Definisi sosial
• Action theory
• Symbolic interactionism
• Phenomenology

Definisi sosial
Fokus pada tindakan sosial

Tindakan mengandung arti

Perlu penafsiran dan pemahaman
untuk merespon

Action theory
Tindakan dilakukan untuk mencapai tujuan (subjek dan objek)

Bertindak menggunakan cara yang dianggap cocok mencapai
tujuan

Kelangsungan tindakan dibatasi eksternal yang tak dapat
dikendalikan
Manusia memilih, menilai dan mengevaluasi tindakannya

Action theory – Simbolic interasctionism - phenomenology

Action theory
• Keyakinan kelompok tertentu terhadap proses kehamilan
dan persalinan mengantarkan mereka pada perilaku pencari
pertolongan persalinan
• Social capital yang tinggi mendorong persalinan di dukun
bayi
• Masyarakat yang menganggap batuk berdarah (TB) terjadi
karena santet dan guna guna, akan mencari orang pintar
untuk menyembuhkan

Action theory

Interactionism symbolic
• Focuses on how individuals influence
and are influenced by society. It
guides investigations into how the
rules of society are re-created
everyday through our interactions
with one another
• the symbolic meanings we attach to
things and events

Action theory – Simbolic interasctionism - phenomenology

“o e co cepts…
Reality is socially constructed through our interactions with one
another. Morality, ethics, and values, are not given; we create

them through our interactions with one another
Social action is influenced by person's beliefs, attitudes,
perceptions, and negotiations of meanings

The rules are open for grabs. If you do not like your society:
work hard to change it!

Conflict Vs Fuctionalist
• The conflict paradigm highlights parts of
society where functionalists usually do not
focus on
• The weakness of the conflict paradigm is
that they miss the consensus- and balance
in society

Paradigma perilaku sosial
• Behavioral Sociology
• Exchange theory
• Rationale choice theory

Paradigma perilaku sosial

Apa yang menjadi
keyakinan dan
motivasi ?

Perilaku individu dipengaruhi oleh keyakinan,
motivasi, dan tujuan

Ketika perilaku menjadi terpola / tetap, maka
menjadi perilaku sosial

Exchange theory
• explains social change and stability as a process of negotiated
exchanges between parties
• posits that all human relationships are formed by the use of a
subjective cost benefit analysis and the comparison of alternatives
• norm of reciprocity

Behavioral Sociology – Exchange theory – rational choice theory

Post Modernism / postStructuralism
• Deconstruction
• Discourse/discourse analysis
• Plurality of knowledge and method
• Power and knowledge; Relativism

The Network Episode Model (Pescosolido, 2006)

Medical sociology
• Also known as health
sociology
• The study of cause
and consequences of
health and illness
(Cockerham, 2011)

Major area of investigation are
Social aspects of health and disease
Social behavior of patient and health provider
Social function of health organization and institution

Social pattern of the utilization of health services
Relationship of health care delivery systems to other social institution and
social policies toward health

Why medical sociology is important?
Recognizes the critical
role social factors play in
determining or
influencing the health of
individuals, groups, or
larger population

Why people have to do sexual intercourse just
after their traditional circumcision in Timor Island?
• Sifon : Atoni Tribe in Timor island
• Sifon : a man is supposed to be engage in
sexual relationship with at least 3 women
• Sifon : a so ial tool to for a a ’s
masculinity and the way to avoid disharmony
in the family (Ungu, 2012)
• the sexual intercourse must be done before
the wound from the circumcision has healed
 to dis ard the heat of ody
• the community belief has influence their
behavior related to health  “TD’s?

The development of Medical Sociology: Talcot
Parsons
Publishes the social system in 1951

First major social theorist to deal with issues of
health, illness, and the role of medicine
Structural-functionalist perspective

Introduced concept of the sick role

What is
Health ?
• A state of complete physical, mental,
and social well-being, and not
merely the absence of disease or injury
(WHO)
• health as the capacity to carry out their
daily activities  ability to function

Contrasting idea about health and social
behavior
• Some people tended to rely on magic as the fundamental explanation
of disease and illness

What do you think ?

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