SOCPSY 2YY3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Labeling Theory, Resocialization, Field Experiment

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Social Psychology
• Course: SOCPSY 2YY3
• Professor: Jeffrey Denis

Document Summary

Defining mental health and illness: edvard munch, the scream (1893) (1) symbolic interactionist perspective. How are the meanings of mental health and illness constructed and how do they change over time and across situations and cultures? (2) social structuralist perspective. How do social structural conditions (ses, social networks, neighbourhoods) affect mental health outcomes (depression, anxiety, addictions)? (3) group processes perspective. Symbolic interactionist theories: the line between deviance and mental illness, or between criminal and medical deviance, is often blurry (social constructed and political process) The meanings of mental health and illness are constantly being negotiated. The meaning of madness" and responses to it, have changed over time. In the 1600"s, the insane" were con ned to instittions and isolated from society. In the 1700"s and 1800"s, the mentally ill" were separated from criminals" and started receiving medical treatment instead of punishment.