But there are also some obligations associated with sick roles.

但也有一些与病态角色相关的义务。

The sick role also entails an appeal to another party — the physician.

与此同时，病人这一角色还需要讨好另一方——医生。

Sick roles are the behaviors associated with having an illness.

病态角色是与患病相关的行为。

Of course, not everyone with a disease plays a sick role.

当然，并不是每个有病的人都扮演生病的角色。

We then talked about what it means to be sick and introduced the concept of the sick role.

然后我们讨论了生病意味着什么，并介绍了生病角色的概​​念。

When you fulfill the sick role, you get a pass on the normal social behavior expected of well people.

当你扮演生病的角色时，你就可以通过健康人所期望的正常社会行为。

The function of the sick role is to create a “social space” for non-normative social behaviors related to being ill in society.

病态角色的功能是为社会上与病态相关的非规范社会行为创造一个“社会空间”。

So the sick role comes with certain rights – you get to skip out on your normal responsibilities, and you’re not held responsible for being sick.

所以生病的角色有一定的权利——你可以跳过你的正常职责，你不需要为生病负责。

Sociologist Talcott Parsons, working within a structural functionalist framework, described the social and cultural responses to disease through the concept of what he called the Sick Role.

社会学家塔尔科特·帕森斯 (Talcott Parsons) 在结构功能主义框架内工作，通过他称之为病态角色的概念描述了社会和文化对疾病的反应。

And sometimes, the medical professionals that we depend on may refuse to accept our claims of sickness, which basically withholds your ability to engage in the sick role.

有时， 我们所依赖的医疗专业人员可能会拒绝接受我们对疾病的要求，这基本上会阻止您承担生病的角色。

There are other critiques of Parson’s sick role, but the point here is that being “sick” is as much a social and cultural experience as it is a biological dysfunction.

还有其他对帕森病态角色的批评，但这里的重点是，“病态”既是一种社会和文化体验，也是一种生物功能障碍。