SOCA01H3 Study Guide - Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Windex, Anger Management

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French culture sees itself as being under threat as it is surrounded by english speakers in canada and the u. s. Symbolic interactionists deviance is socially constructed including health: bad health is a form of deviance, deviance is subjective. Mental health: dependent on non scientific forces, labeled different behaviors as mental illness. Past: deviant behavior was labeled as evil, corrupt: was punished by law, clergy, religious people, family, community, moral problem upon deviant (wicked/wayward) If someone is a drug addict or an alcoholic, person is treated in a detoxification centre: moral dimension is gone. Person prone to range has an anger management problem hot head in the past: get medicated. Someone who overeats gets therapy or surgery to feel full after eating a small meal because stomache is stapled - lose hundreds of pounds. 1978 neuroces was a mental disorder, but dropped: mother with neuroces was cleaning leaves on an apple tree in the back yard with windex and.