Journal of Research on Technology in Education

Running head: PUBLIC HEALTH
PUBLIC HEALTH
Name of the student:
Name of the University:
Author Note:

PUBLIC HEALTH1
Introduction:
This paper aims to discuss pandemic and public health crisis under the light of
Durkheimian and Weberian sociological theory tradition. Public Health refers to the health of the
population as a whole as a branch of government Revolution and support. It is defined as the
science and art of developing prevention of disease. This problem is life and improve quality of
life through informed choices in the society by organisations both public and private individuals
communities and there organised efforts. It is a branch of medicine that deals with public health
relating to hygiene disease prevention and epidemiology. In this paper an example of global
pandemic named Covid 19 taking the world through a transition period, killing thousands people
worldwide. The main problem of this pandemic is its easy spread and unavailability of any
medicine. In addition to this, the information about the virus named Novel Corona is not much
available and the scientists of different pats of the world has been finding various features of this
virus so that the death toll can be prevented (Everett et al., 2020). Public Health can be related to
the initiative taken by the government in the time of health crisis where initiative is taken to
inform and educate people about the current health issues. This mobilizers community
partnership and take actions to identify as well as solve the health problems. This develop the
policies and plans which support both the individuals as well as community health efforts. This is
the reason why the people are being instructed ti take some very important measures and stay at
their home to be This enforces the laws and regulations which protect health as well as ensure
safety.
Corona virus disease of Covid 19 is an infectious disease that mainly attacks the
respiratory system of human beings and has become a global threat since December 2019. This
virus has been discovered affecting the people in Wuhan province of China and gradually has
spread in more than 10 countries of the world. This disease initially had been spread as epidemic
as it had spread to many people and communities at the same time. Now the situation has
become so grave that this virus has become a global phenomenon (Ahima et al. 2020). World
Health Organisation has disclosed its concern as the alarming levels of the corona virus spread,
inaction and severity. In the expectation of the number of cases, affected countries and deaths
can continue to increase. Now the report of the UN most of the people infected with this virus
are experiencing mild and moderate respiratory illness will be recovering without much

PUBLIC HEALTH2
exclusive treatment but the older people, children with low immunity capacity and those with
medical problems like cardiovascular disease, chronic respiratory disease, cancer, diabetes and
other issues can develop serious illness. This issues have convinced people around the world
mainly the scientists that because of this disease is transmitted easily to the others, therefore
prevention is the best policy to be applied in this situation (Givi et al. 2020). Due to this
pandemic, UN has suggested the administration of all the countries to take proper initiative to
prevent this disease to be transmitted socially.
There are proper guidelines and rules set for keeping social distancing and most of the
countries are following the path of locking down the states and provinces as China to stop people
carrying this virus to different parts of the world. In spite of having great medical systems and
best physicians to take care of, people are dying in huge number. The developed countries like
Japan, Italy, Spain, America, UK are being curbed with this disease as their population is being
hit by this pandemic. The understanding of social distancing is being pressurised through
government systems and people in some places are being threatened for breaking this chain of
transmission. The main barrier of this pandemic is the awareness of people about this disease and
how this problem can be solved without much harassment and economic slowdown (Givi et al.
2020). The lock down process and soicla distancg tp fight this pandemic are two major steps that
can be analysed through the sociological theories of both Durkheim as well as Weber.
Durkheimian sociological theory
The public health researchers around the world have utilised a huge number of concepts
which they derived from the works of Durkheim. This can be social capital and anomie. In
addition to this the factors of religion and science that develop cult of humanity the religion in
the society is organised around the organic solitary. World of humanity is there we characterize
to have humanity the centre of worship of religion and combine elements from Science and
religion. Complementary therapies along with medicine are identified to be possible candidate to
fulfil the responsibilities of kind of humanity (Rosenberg, 2016). The Institution of Public Health
therefore seems to be particularly an appropriate candidate which provides insight to academic
functions of Public Health and dual advocacy. The tension between the individual choices and
constant along with buffering role of the public health relating to other social institution can be
connected here.

PUBLIC HEALTH3
Durkheim has adopted and approach in which he has considered the society to be
developing from a traditional state to a modern society through perfect understanding as well as
expansion of the divisions of labour this particular theorist as compared society as an organism
which has different parts functioning to ensure perfect and orderly operation as well as evolution
of society he has been associated with the idea of structural functionalism in which he has
regarded society to be a compost structure that functions together (Swedberg, 2018). He has
distinguished function and structure of the society and considered it to be a composition of
individual’s constant influence and a huge number of individuals connected through norms. In
his theory Durkheim has pointed out that all of these factors are developed from earlier as well as
current human actions and their stand apart from any individual to form themselves into
particular structures or Institutions to affect the individual.
Durkheim has special concerned with the issue of the social order and how the modern
society has hold together composing in individuals in it. each of the individuals are acting in an
autonomous manner with separate and different interests he has focused on the problem of
reconciling freedom and the morality and social Cohesion in the modern society. he has
explained various social issues and answer them with the concept of social solidarity systems of
common mobility forms of law and common consciousness. according to this theory the forces
and structure of the society are not always effective to produce as well as social order there is a
continuous social change because the reason of society and Labour develop where disruption can
take place leading to common consciousness (Fish, 2017). He has connected this with forced
division of labour and to the periods of ruthlessness which he has called anomie. Durkheim has
mentioned and aim to be leading the individuals towards suicide through which he has explored
the causes of various suicide rate at different spaces and times in Europe to explain why they
differ.
The sociological theory of Durkheim, has distinguished sociology from Psychology
economic philosophy and other Social Sciences by argue that the society is itself and identity. He
has pointed out that there are some particular features of the collective life in the in the society
which is embedded with social facts and connection of the individuals. He has considered the
beliefs consciousness and practices of the collective groups to be coercive on the individual
actors in the society. In this respect he has a structuralism approach where social structures are