SOCPSY 2YY3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Michel Foucault, Erving Goffman, Middle Ages
6 Jan 2020
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Many people believe that mental health is an individual problem. Study of social arrangements that affect mental illness and its consequences. How you label something and decide how its constructed its going to depend on the outcome. Displays of certain symptoms have always existed but its what we have called them that has changed. Studied ways western society perceived what he calls madness from the middle ages to his present-day society. 18th and 19th century - criminals vs. insane - mental illness comes into the medical domain. Medicalization of deviance refers to the ways in which social problems - including mental health problems - have come under the boundaries of medicine. 3 forces historically drive what aspects of social life become medicalized. The power and authority of the medical profession. Stigma: an attribute that can be discrediting (some stigmas associated with different types of mental illness) 4 ways patients in goffman"s study coped with their confinement.
