SOC 2070 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Antisocial Personality Disorder, Objectivist Periodicals, Dementia

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 2070
• Professor: Patrick Parnaby

Document Summary

Mentally ill are subject to widely held negative stereotypes comprising 3 dimensions: unintelligibility- others do not understand. Goff(cid:373)a(cid:374)"s (cid:862)(cid:373)eta-rule(cid:863) that (cid:271)oth spee(cid:272)h a(cid:374)d a(cid:272)tio(cid:374) (cid:373)ust (cid:271)e i(cid:374)telligi(cid:271)le. Stereotype: mentally ill prone to unintelligible speech and action. Those with schizophrenia, serious anxiety disorders, severe depression, If its odd, a logical explanation is expected dementia, etc. degree of unpredictability. But most mentally ill people are perfectly sensible and entirely predictable. Assume they are incompetent at home, work, etc. Some severe disorders do have periods of incompetency. Those with sever symptoms often find niches (obsessive disorders tailor their lives around tasks that allow them to channel their obsessive tendencies into productive work) People with anxiety and depression often work in the arts, very creative. Bi polar disorder among economically successful: violence. People assume that the mentally ill are prone to violence. Vast majority are not, more likely to be quiet, calm, empathetic.