SOC 107 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Social Inequality, Personality Disorder, Medicalization
18 Apr 2016
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Culture of therapy the widespread acceptance of a particular psychotherapeutic ethos that shapes social practices, due to the now pervasive presence of psy disclosures in the everyday lives and practices of westerners. Psy complex a heterogeneous network of agents, sites, practices and techniques for the production, dissemination, legitimation, and utilization of psychological truths. The psy complex includes a loosely defined group of experts who possess a professional and moral status such as psychiatrists, psychologists, psychiatric nurses, counsellors, psychotherapists, criminologists, and social workers. Psychocetrism the outlook that all human problems are pathologies of the individual mind and/or body. Foucault believed that normalization is the most effective means of social regulation in contemporary western societies. Normalizing power a force in society that compares, differentiated, creates a hierarchy, homogenizes, and excludes. It is therefore also a dividing practice, because it clearly involves the making of value-laden distance between people. Counter-history a critical alternative approach to taken-for-granted or dominant histories.
