SOC 2070 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Bipolar Disorder, Personality Disorder, Dementia

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 2070
• Professor: Parnaby

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Mentally ill are subject to widely held negative stereotypes comprising 3. If its not, a logical explanation as to why is expected. Stereotype: mi prone to unintelligible speech & action. Unintelligibility : the (cid:498)meta-rule(cid:499) of intelligible speech and action must be. People don"t know how to approach people whom they don"t understand (cid:498)illogical(cid:499) (cid:498)unintelligible(cid:499) A degree of unpredictability (cid:523)uneasy feeling, people don"t know whats. Those with schizophrenia, serious anxiety disorders, severe depression, dementia, ect coming next) Most mi people are perfectly sensible and entirely predictable. Assume mi are incompetent (at home, work, social life ect). Vast majority lead productive, goal directed, creative lives (rogers & pilgrim 2005) Obsessive disorders and detailed & repetitive tasks. The vast majority are not (rogers and pilgrim 2005) Mostly severe personality disorders (anti- social personality disorder, schizophrenia ect). Globally, the media connect psychosis & violence (usa, can, uk, germany, ect) Children"s literature: m) as dirty, violent, criminal, failures (cid:523)wahl (cid:884)00(cid:885)(cid:524)