SOC 2070 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Social Anxiety Disorder, Fluoxetine, Anxiety Disorder

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

Document Summary

Same as "as cited in" (blumer in smith 2016), just need the name. Mental illness: torture to treatment: medicalization - 1980s to present. "big pharma", pills & profit (i. e. , prozac 1986) "symptoms" = ("residual rule breaking": patients come in for help and show "symptoms" but these are nothing more than quirky behaviours that go against social norms. March 15, 2018 i. e. people who act "withdrawn", who mumble, or who hallucinate are easily diagnosed multiple-personality disorder or other disorders. Suggesting that medicine/medical practitioners was creating mental illness. "symptoms" can be caused by other factors (i. e. drugs, stress) Stressed & stigmatized, he/she accepts mi designation & becomes ill: reflects lemert"s primary/secondary deviance, critiques. Insufficient evidence that labeling leads to mi (except for the point about power) 1989: mi leads to devaluation and discrimination (still true, view shared by those who are ill, the mi fear devaluation & rejection. Strained relations with other leads to negative outcomes.