SOCIOL 2D06 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Erving Goffman, Impression Management, Symbolic Interactionism

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3 areas of sociological social psychology each make unique contributions to study of mental health and illness. Symbolic interaction to the construction of mental illness. Social structure and personality to the causation of mental illness. Group processes to some consequences of mental illness labels. 1656 great confinement, insane and other deviants housed together separated from society. Reform movements of 18th/19th c. led to separation of criminals from the insane. Three forces driving what aspects of social life become medicalized: the power and authority of the medical profession, activities of social movements and interest groups, directed organizational or professional activities. Goffman impression management, how individuals maintain healthy images of themselves over time and in interactions with other people. Total institutions: places where people are required to isolate themselves from rest of society. Mental institutions, monasteries, prisons, boarding school etc. Goffman goal of asylum is to force patient to adjust sense of self to the rules and regulations of the institution.

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