Format:
1 online resource (200 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9781529215076
Content:
Can the social sciences explain the emergence of mental disorders in societies or in individuals? This book presents a critical look at sociological explanations of mental illnesses, making the case for their renewal.
Content:
Front Cover -- Explaining Mental Illness: Sociological Perspectives -- Copyright information -- Table of contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Towards a Critical Renewal of the Sociology of Mental Health -- Turning points -- Preliminary notes -- Structure of the book -- 1 Social Positions 'and' Mental Disorders -- Inequalities in mental health: a story of variables? -- The quest for social determinants -- Adding more variables -- Explanatory models -- Beyond correlations: three alternatives -- Intersectional perspectives -- Configurational perspectives -- Definitional perspectives -- Conclusion -- 2 Society as Stressor -- Rise and decline of the stress paradigm -- Social origins: stress in the city -- From the origins of stress to the stress paradigm -- Biological imaginaries of 'stressed minds' -- Limits of the stress paradigm -- Universality of stress -- Measurability of stress -- Abstraction of context -- Moral conservatism -- Lack of novel findings -- Stressful dominations -- Socialization to stress -- Minority stress -- From the meaning of stress to the sociology of emotions -- Anger! -- Paranoia and the social organization of trust -- Conclusion -- 3 The Weight of Labels -- Great reversals -- The labelling theories of mental illness -- Madness, power and knowledge -- Into the politics of categorization -- How labels acquire legitimacy: medicalization processes -- Labels in everyday life: local settings and agency -- Stigma, or the shift towards consequences -- Back to the generative power of labelling -- Socio-political arrangements and the production of categories -- The black box of performativity -- Why do labels exist? -- Conclusion -- 4 The Uses of Culture -- Cultural explanations: birth of a research question -- Culture-bound syndromes, Western biomedicine and relativism.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781529215045
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9781529215045
Language:
English
