Social Construction Essay
The existence of mental illness is highly debated on whether they are real and proven by science or just a creation from the lack of acceptance due to our social construct. Science has the ability to prove the existence of these disorders through logical processes which are defined and experimented upon. Our social construct does, however, shape what we believe is correct thinking and behavior. In a way social construct attempts to set a standard for behavior and thinking to compare others to, in order to determine whether or not one has a disorder. Also, the cure for these disorders are equally debatable, where social construct is the sole factor of their existence, then we may have to change our views and offer acceptance of the newly
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He proves that its existence is real and not just a phase that is experienced by middle or upper classes of society that differs from their well-off lifestyle. In the chapter “Madness: Biological or Constructed,” by Ian Hacking, the author is trying to shed light on the debate by explaining on how illness is real and how we are just too readily able to jump to social construct as the main cause rather than scientific reasoning. Sadowsky seems to be on the opposite end of the spectrum in terms of this debate when compared to Hacking. In the passage “The Social World and the Reality of Mental Illness: Lessons from Colonial Psychiatry,” by Jonathan Sadowsky, the author lean more towards cultural relativism as a huge aspect of what can constitute towards the existence of mental illness and that different cultures “cures” these disorders in their own way. Watters, however, is able to tie both sides of the debate by looking to include both social construct and real science for the creation and treatment of mental illness. In the chapter “The Shifting Mask of Schizophrenia in Zanzibar,” by Ethan Watters, he likes to compare the different ways the Zanzibar people deal with and define the aspects of schizophrenia to those of Western doctors, through the research of
He proves that its existence is real and not just a phase that is experienced by middle or upper classes of society that differs from their well-off lifestyle. In the chapter “Madness: Biological or Constructed,” by Ian Hacking, the author is trying to shed light on the debate by explaining on how illness is real and how we are just too readily able to jump to social construct as the main cause rather than scientific reasoning. Sadowsky seems to be on the opposite end of the spectrum in terms of this debate when compared to Hacking. In the passage “The Social World and the Reality of Mental Illness: Lessons from Colonial Psychiatry,” by Jonathan Sadowsky, the author lean more towards cultural relativism as a huge aspect of what can constitute towards the existence of mental illness and that different cultures “cures” these disorders in their own way. Watters, however, is able to tie both sides of the debate by looking to include both social construct and real science for the creation and treatment of mental illness. In the chapter “The Shifting Mask of Schizophrenia in Zanzibar,” by Ethan Watters, he likes to compare the different ways the Zanzibar people deal with and define the aspects of schizophrenia to those of Western doctors, through the research of