SOC 445 Lecture 1: Lecture 9/10

• School: U of M
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 445
• Professor: Professor PJ McGann

Document Summary

Lecture 9/10: key ideas, diagnosis/dx has two meanings, the label/ category . Groneman: nymphomania: a category is a concept/idea that classifies things using characteristics, as a process, making a diagnosis, it could also refer to receiving a diagnosis, social construction. Making a diagnosis is an active process that requires thinking and constructing. Often times, individuals are not limited to one diagnosis. Made up by real, the consequences are real made up by humans: fundamentally shaped by the social world, implications of social construction, things that are socially constructed, they. Illustration: existentiality (4 forms, historical moment (hx, cultural conceptions of reality, social currents concerns, diagnostic advocacy/interest politics. Categorization and classification are social phenomenon: seems purely descriptive but instead it is an active process, we can"t perceive the world directly, we do so through our categories, perception is active, lumping and splitting. Medical naming: nosology, system of naming, classification/typology, dynamic, in-out movement, e. g, 1973-74: homosexuality is taken out of dsm, movement within.