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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.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autores principales: Brossard, Baptiste, 1985- (Autor), Chandler, Amy (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bristol, UK : Bristol University Press, 2022.
Temas:
Mental illness > Social aspects.
Mental health > Social aspects.
Maladies mentales > Aspect social.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Sociology > General.
Mental health > Social aspects
Mental illness > Social aspects
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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
  • People within cultures: diffusion, inversion and amplification
  • Cultures within people: clash, consonance and loss
  • Contemporary perspectives on 'culture'
  • Illness as cultural expression
  • Towards integrative models
  • Bio-psycho-social models
  • Ecological niches
  • Postcolonial and decolonial approaches
  • Conclusion
  • Conclusion: Explaining the 'Mental Health Crisis'
  • Social trends
  • Pathogenic dominations
  • Stressful times
  • Categorizing spirals
  • Cultural mirrors
  • Towards bigger pictures
  • Notes
  • References
  • Index
  • Back Cover

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