MODELS OF JUSTIFYING THE SOCIAL INSIGHTS OF DIABETES: ADAPTING GIDDENS’ SOCIOLOGICAL PATTERN OF RELATING INDIVIDUAL AND SOCIAL AGENCIES TO THE MANAGEMENT OF TYPE 2 DIABETES
Abstract:
The main aim of this research is to evaluate the social insights of type 2 diabetes (T2D), by
comparing and contrasting different theoretical models that undertake social justification for such
disease. Three hypotheses model the evolution of this study: (1) social and demographic
determinations as well as clinical studies are not capable to provide a sustainable explanation for the
impossibility of diabetes patients to maintain a proper metabolic control, they must be intimately
correlated with subjective, emotional, psychological factors describing the mental health of the
patient; (2) the patient must be conceived as a double-role agent, who suffers from such a disease and
finds himself in the position to operate the management the disease; (3) social relationships that can
facilitate or, on the contrary, reduce the risk of this chronic condition. Therefore, the research
attentively selects and evaluates models of comprehending social insights of type II diabetes, inspired
by Giddens’ sociological pattern of relating individual and social agencies and the Levanthal model.
One of the major outcomes of this comparative study is that it frames multiple perspectives bridging
medical and psychological factors in addressing causal and consequential social implications of type
II diabetes.
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