SOC 1200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 36: Mental Disorder

• School: University of Manitoba
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 1200
• Professor: Kandrack Mary- Anne

Document Summary

How does social groups give meaning to biology: medicine - (cid:271)ad for kids (cid:271)ut told to give it the(cid:373) so they"ll get (cid:271)etter. Racists says there are biological differences between races: etc. If we add in gender and ethnicity it becomes a lot more complicated. How do they effect someone"s view on someone. Poor people have more severe types of mental disorders and are a lot harder to treat. Men get diagnosed with more severe mental disorders - substance abuse, Women have more erotic types of problems - depression: boys taught to not share feelings. So men go to substance abuse/suicide instead of talking about it. Lang and thomas zass - critics to mental illness - psychiatrist: mental illness is fake, non european background people -diagnosed with more severe mental disorder. First had european psychiatrists - with thick accents - patie(cid:374)ts (cid:272)ould(cid:374)"t u(cid:374)dersta(cid:374)d the(cid:373) Race, ethnicity, gender - socially constructed: how does the social context help us understand human behaviour.