Explaining Mental Illness: Sociological Perspectives

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 Baptiste Brossard And Amy Chandler. Description Based Upon Print Version Of Record. Electronic Reproduction. Baltimore, Md Available Via World Wide Web.