Title Explaining mental illness : sociological perspectives / Baptiste Brossard and Amy Chandler

Published Bristol, UK : Bristol University Press, 2022 ©2022

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Description 1 online resource Contents Front Cover -- Explaining Mental Illness: Sociological Perspectives -- Copyright information -- Table of contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Towards a Critical Renewal of the Sociology of Mental Health -- Turning points -- Preliminary notes -- Structure of the book -- 1 Social Positions 'and' Mental Disorders -- Inequalities in mental health: a story of variables? -- The quest for social determinants -- Adding more variables -- Explanatory models -- Beyond correlations: three alternatives -- Intersectional perspectives -- Configurational perspectives -- Definitional perspectives Conclusion -- 2 Society as Stressor -- Rise and decline of the stress paradigm -- Social origins: stress in the city -- From the origins of stress to the stress paradigm -- Biological imaginaries of 'stressed minds' -- Limits of the stress paradigm -- Universality of stress -- Measurability of stress -- Abstraction of context -- Moral conservatism -- Lack of novel findings -- Stressful dominations -- Socialization to stress -- Minority stress -- From the meaning of stress to the sociology of emotions -- Anger! -- Paranoia and the social organization of trust -- Conclusion 3 The Weight of Labels -- Great reversals -- The labelling theories of mental illness -- Madness, power and knowledge -- Into the politics of categorization -- How labels acquire legitimacy: medicalization processes -- Labels in everyday life: local settings and agency -- Stigma, or the shift towards consequences -- Back to the generative power of labelling -- Socio-political arrangements and the production of categories -- The black box of performativity -- Why do labels exist? -- Conclusion -- 4 The Uses of Culture -- Cultural explanations: birth of a research question Culture-bound syndromes, Western biomedicine and relativism -- People within cultures: diffusion, inversion and amplification -- Cultures within people: clash, consonance and loss -- Contemporary perspectives on 'culture' -- Illness as cultural expression -- Towards integrative models -- Bio-psycho-social models -- Ecological niches -- Postcolonial and decolonial approaches -- Conclusion -- Conclusion: Explaining the 'Mental Health Crisis' -- Social trends -- Pathogenic dominations -- Stressful times -- Categorizing spirals -- Cultural mirrors -- Towards bigger pictures -- Notes -- References Index -- Back Cover Summary Can the social sciences explain the emergence of mental disorders in societies or in individuals? This book presents a critical look at sociological explanations of mental illnesses, making the case for their renewal Notes Print version record Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on June 30, 2022) Subject Mental illness -- Social aspects Mental health -- Social aspects SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology -- General. Mental health -- Social aspects Mental illness -- Social aspects Form Electronic book Author Chandler, Amy, author ISBN 1529215072 9781529215076

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