SOCIOL 2Q06 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Noble Savage, Psychopathology, Intellectual Disability
13 Dec 2016
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We use phenotype features to determine race, has no meaning within whole. Physical features that we often imagine as indicative of race are found across. Lecture 6 race, ethnicity and mental health. No such thing as a pure race, not are there (cid:498)pure(cid:499) people. Immeasurable category assigned by others some and degrading others). Race is still meaningful (race is constructed in a relational sense, privileging of an organism racial groups. Western psychology and psychiatry are structured along lines that reflect our societies privileging of certain notions. Mental health understood as individual variable, rather than something tied. When we think of mh, we atomize it and treat it with isolation. Something that each one of us has independently. understand ourselves in relation to other people. Individuals who define wellbeing in other terms - collectively, community- have it some ppl don(cid:495)t, its not a social process. We are social creatures, we focused do not necessarily fit into this system.
