Chapter 13: Sociological understandings of mental health
1. Social causation theories assume that ___.
- Mental disorder is socially constructed
- Psychiatrists are efficient at diagnosing mental disorder
- Mental disorder is real
- We always know what causes mental disorder
2. For Goffman, people are turned into patients by ___.
- Degradation rituals
- Interaction with other patients
- The scrutiny of psychiatrists
- Over protective parents
3. For social realists, what is it that is socially constructed?
- Everything
- Reality
- Psychological deviance
- Our understanding of reality
4. For as long as there has been organised psychiatric institutions there has been ___.
- Consistent abuse of power
- Consistent provision of compassionate care
- Resistance to psychiatric power
- A natural emergence of occupational hierarchy
5. Peter Sedgwick’s ideas are most accurately described as ___.
- Economic determinism
- Classical Marxism
- Anarchist
- Proto-critical realist
6. New social movements are characterised by ___.
- Rigid hierarchies
- Bureaucratic systems
- Identity politics
- Class politics
7. Judgements about health or illness are ultimately ___.
- Value judgements
- Independent of social norms
- Objective
- Best left to medical practitioners with relevant expertise