Sociology of Mental Disorders

Name: Sociology of Mental Disorders
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ISBN: 9780275963231

ISBN-10: 0275963233

ISBN-13: 9780275963231

Edition: 3rd 2001

Authors: William W. Eaton

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This thoroughly revised edition of The Sociology of Mental Disorders presents a biosocial model for understanding mental disorders, which integrates the sociological paradigm with current research in the epidemiology of mental disorders and on biological features of mental disorders. It shows the many ways in which macrosocial factors--such as stratification, integration, and culture--and microsocial factors--such as self-concept formation, socialization, and imitation--influence the distribution of mental disorders throughout the population, in combination with psychological and biological factors. The author adopts an epistemological point of view, comparing and contrasting various…

Book details

List price: $138.95
Edition: 3rd
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: Greenwood Publishing Group, Incorporated
Publication date: 11/30/2000
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 400
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.50" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.738
Language: English



Illustrations


Preface



The Social Construction of Bizarre Behaviors



The Social Epidemiology of Mental Disorders



Role, Identity, Suggestibility, and Stress



Integration: Community and Family



Socioeconomic Stratification



The Social Transmission of Psychopathology



Social Aspects of Treatment



Mental Disorder in the Modern World


References


Index