SOC 2070 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Bipolar Disorder, Objectivist Periodicals, Socioeconomic Status
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Negative stereotypes comprising 3 dimensions: unintelligibility (assumption that mental illness is deviant because people with the condition will be unintelligent) Incompetence & lack of credibility (people with various forms are unable to fulfill particular tasks and as a result lack credibility: violence (most troubling always just one second away from attacking you) Stand up comedy: logical and sensible given social context. Violence: assume mentally ill are prone to violence (link et al. Our view is distorted: despite tertiary deviance (bell lets talk campaign) Images of pathetic dependence and/or silliness : subject of exploitive humour. Mental illness as an objective condition is the degree to which is can be identified, measured and treated: emphasis on etiology (the origin, where is it coming from?) Identifying causes what social conditions effect rates of mi: emphasis on epidemiology (the social distribution of mental illness, figuring out the underlying causes of that distribution, how illness is socially distributed (ex.
