SOCIOL 1 Chapter Notes -Maimonides
7 May 2014
School
Department
Course
Professor
Document Summary
Assumption: we can tell the sane from the insane. Had the same pasts, family history, etc. except for career. Once admitted, were diagnosed and treated as insane. Behaved well but called in remission from schizophrenia. Patients were able to distinguish the sane people, even when the staff could not. >>staff is biased, while the patients who were actually insane managed to distinguish very well. We are all affected by bias, and especially when labels come into play. Even normal behavior can be deemed insane if a person really wants to view you that way. She uses the same line each time instead of outright stating that it"s america. She does this to make you second guess what country it is. For the midterm, know that this is about the united states. Maimonides claimed the ban was intended as a public health measure but other domestic animals also carried disease if undercooked.
