Sociology of Mental Disorders

Name: Sociology of Mental Disorders
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ISBN: 9780275963248

ISBN-10: 0275963241

ISBN-13: 9780275963248

Edition: 3rd 2001 (Revised)

Authors: William W. Eaton, Michael Kelleher

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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: $39.95
Edition: 3rd
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: Greenwood Publishing Group, Incorporated
Publication date: 11/30/2000
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 400
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.25" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.386
Language: English



Preface


The Social Construction of Bizarre Behaviors


Introduction


The Social Construction of Reality Bizarre Behaviors as Disease


Bizarre Behaviors as Deviance


Biosocial Framework For the Etiology of Mental Disorders


A Definition of Mental Disorder


The Social Epidemiology of Mental Disorders


The Methods of Epidemiology


Basic Data in Psychiatric


Epidemiology Role, Identity, Suggestibility, and Stress


Role and Identity


Suggestibility and Mental Disorders


Stress and Mental Disorders


Integration: Community and Family


Community Family Socioeconomic Stratification


Causation: Environmental and Individual Factors


Selection and Drift: Individual and Environmental Factors


Other Concepts of Socioeconomic Disadvantage


The Social Transmission of Psychopathology


Acute Epidemics


Chronic Epidemics


Theories of Collective behavior


Relevant Social Psychological Processes


Sociologic Framework for Somatoform Epidemics (Rescite)


Social Aspects of Treatment


Bizarre Behaviors and Use of Services


The Organization of Treatment


Diffusion of Therapeutic Innovations in Psychiatry


Ideology, Technology, and Structure in Psychiatry


Mental Disorder in the Modern World


The Individual in Modern Society


Epidemiologic Evidence


Modern Society as Insane


Bibliography


Index