The Sociology of Mental Illness

Fault

________- something is wrong with me (you) as a person.

sociological lens

A(n) ________ that looks at phenomena that are shaped by the social forces present in the time and place of its creation.

Goffman

________ defines the stigma of mental illness to be a "blemish of individual character in terms of mental illness "(________ 4)

Gender identity disorder

________: still considered a diagnosable mental illness.

Durkheim

________ was a structural functionalist.

Diagnostic and Statistical Manual

Argument: Having it in the ________ allows doctors to treat it and bill for it.

Medicalization

________: a process by which human problems come to be defined and treated as medical problems.

Past self

________ is over written by mentally ill self.