SOCA02H3 : Mapping Chapters 19,21 - A+ Notes
25 Apr 2011
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Chapter 19: on be ing sane i n i nsane places david l. rosenhan. since there are a variety of social norms that dictate human behaviour, there are numerous behaviours that can be considered deviant. whether a person is labelled deviant or not depends on how others perceive, define, and respond to that person"s behaviour. in this article, rosenhan explores social deviance of mental illness and the consequences of labelling people sane or insane . sanity and insanity are therefore less substantive that people perceive them to me. the view has grown that psychological categorization of mental illness is useless, harmful, misleading, and pejorative psychiatric diagnoses are in the minds of the observers and are not valid summaries of characteristics displayed by the observed. this article describes such an experiment: eight sane people gained secret access to twelve different psychiatric hospitals.
