Chapter 13: Sociological understandings of mental health

1. Social causation theories assume that ___.

  1. Mental disorder is socially constructed
  2. Psychiatrists are efficient at diagnosing mental disorder
  3. Mental disorder is real
  4. We always know what causes mental disorder

Answer: C

2. For Goffman, people are turned into patients by ___.

  1. Degradation rituals
  2. Interaction with other patients
  3. The scrutiny of psychiatrists
  4. Over protective parents

Answer: A

3. For social realists, what is it that is socially constructed?

  1. Everything
  2. Reality
  3. Psychological deviance
  4. Our understanding of reality

Answer: D

4. For as long as there has been organised psychiatric institutions there has been ___.

  1. Consistent abuse of power
  2. Consistent provision of compassionate care
  3. Resistance to psychiatric power
  4. A natural emergence of occupational hierarchy

Answer: C

5. Peter Sedgwick’s ideas are most accurately described as ___.

  1. Economic determinism
  2. Classical Marxism
  3. Anarchist
  4. Proto-critical realist

Answer: D

6. New social movements are characterised by ___.

  1. Rigid hierarchies
  2. Bureaucratic systems
  3. Identity politics
  4. Class politics

Answer: C

7. Judgements about health or illness are ultimately ___.

  1. Value judgements
  2. Independent of social norms
  3. Objective
  4. Best left to medical practitioners with relevant expertise 

Answer: A