William W. Eaton

The Sociology of Mental Disorders

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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 frameworks for comprehending bizarre forms of deviance that are labeled as mental disorders, including a definition of mental disorder that is purely sociological. He introduces new data and frameworks concerning the process of social stratification and mental disorders, the diffusion of somatoform disorders, mental disorders in the modern world, and the insane society. Original data from classic research studies in the field are introduced and discussed to illustrate the application of sociological frameworks to the problem of bizarre deviance. Carefully selected first-person accounts of the experience of bizarre deviance add poignancy to the presentation, along with examples of official diagnostic criteria.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Praeger
• 3. Auflage
• Seitenzahl: 400
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Januar 2001
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 800g
• ISBN-13: 9780275963231
• ISBN-10: 0275963233
• Artikelnr.: 25564900

Autorenporträt

WILLIAM W. EATON is Professor of Mental Hygiene in the School of Hygiene and Public Health at Johns Hopkins University. He is also Director of the NIMH Training Program in Psychiatric Epidemiology at Johns Hopkins University. In addition to the first and second edition of The Sociology of Mental Disorders (1980 and 1985), he has authored numerous scientific articles and coedited three books.

Inhaltsangabe

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