SOCI 398 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: World Health Organization, Substance Dependence, Social Representation
18 Feb 2017
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Addiction is a complex and multifaceted phenomenon. Addiction is shaped in 3 ways: individual experiences cognitions, emotions, social representations the way others feel and think about it, social norms and sociocultural referents. The concept of addiction is shaped by: conception of the object of addiction, conception of the user, sociocultural/historical context. There is a multiplicity of visions and their roles in the construction of addition. Sociocultural factors in dependence: where is dependence located and where does it operate, mind, body, or both, drug, person, environment. Addiction is produced through contexts by an assemblage of certain elements and the exclusion of others: research labs, clinical encounters, health policy meetings, legal schedules, texts dsm, aa. Enlightenment century (17th-18th century: reason and individual liberty, social order and self control, strong will (rationality) is an indication of success, respect . Turn of the 19th century (200-250 years ago: rise of the middle class, drunkard.
