SOSA 1003 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Cultural Capital, Sleep Deprivation, Neoliberalism

• School: Dalhousie University
• Department: Sociol & Social Anthropology
• Course: SOSA 1003
• Professor: Falconer C.

Document Summary

Sosa 1003 lecture 2 september 10,2018 the student mental health crisis: a sociological perspective. Origins of the project: student accommodation study. Class differences in economic, social and cultural capital (financial, social network, and cultural resources like education) affect accommodations. Class differences in beliefs about stigma (negative social evaluations) surrounding accommodations and entitlement to accommodations. Wellness is kind of about consuming expensive products. The concept is marketed towards the upper middle class and is also time-consuming: mental health issues in the classroom. The problems to a lot of students are social but mental help is often personal. Research question: what is the (cid:272)urre(cid:374)t (cid:862)dis(cid:272)ourse(cid:863)- the typical way of talking about student mental health, how do universities. Lack of proper diagnoses is creating a panic in the public. Pathologization of every day life from self diagnoses of mental illness. Sociological resources: c. wright mills: personal troubles, public issues (cid:862)co(cid:374)sider (cid:373)arriage.