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Introduction
Talcott Parsons and Emile Durkheim are two pertinent theorists in the field sociology, and particularly in the health and illness sphere. Public health practitioners have often referred to the theories advanced by Parsons and Durkheim in an attempt to gain a deeper discernment of the various dynamics of health and illness and how they interact with each other. In turn, this has allowed the practitioners to create effective plans to assure optimal well-being for the public. While this is the case, the level of effectiveness attributed to the two theorists in addressing the aspects of the healthcare system, health, and health problems differ significantly. Even the two theories are vital in the area of health and illness, Parsons’ theory is more comprehensive and is more applicable for healthcare practitioners when compared to Durkheim’s model.
Parsons and Durkheim on human behavior
One of the areas that the two theorists have covered is on human behavior. According to Nisbet (1965: 14), Durkheim claims that individual instincts, passions, and sentiments are not the causes of human behavior. Instead, motivation to depict a certain tendency is caused by the society and culture. In an attempt to show how the society influences people, Durkheim indicated that individuals usually speak a language that they did not create and instruments that are not of their own invention. Additionally, the theorist argues that people often invoke rights that they did not establish. In this regard, Durkheim feels that the society usually passes a fund of knowledge onto every generation. To this end, Durkheim purports that a human being depicts certain behavior because it is socialized (Roach Anleu, 2005: 168). This brings rise to the issue of moral order and the society. As such, Durkheim claims that morality is a prerequisite condition for the existence of the society. Therefore, because of this moral order, humans have to act in a predetermined manner. The way the societal moral order wants humans to behave might be or not be appealing to an individual.
Parsons, on his part, rejects the idea that economic and biological processes cause