SOSC 1350 Study Guide - Narratology, Mental Disorder, Medicalization

• School: York University
• Department: Social Science
• Course: SOSC 1350
• Professor: Julie Dowsett

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Sosc 1375: final exam study guide cases. 18 year old women from england, servant in massey home. Young + white + british + innocent + hardworking + dutiful + dressed in dowdy clothing. Bert massey: liked fast cars and had a reputation for womanizing. Bert massey"s family claimed that she may have been insane. Asylum by the lake (1890-1979) humber college. The modern era: much of what we see as the abnormal now becomes medicalized. It"s no longer an aberration departing from the right path. Medicalization of social problems: it"s a medical problem requiring a medical solution. Terms: narratology, social norms, legal consciousness, medicalized, ideal womanhood. David edwin oakes found with 8 x 1 gram vials of hash oil and in cash. Reverse onus: mr. oakes had to prove that he wasn"t a drug dealer (police assumed he was drug dealer)