Peter Conrad Fall 2014 Department of Sociology Sociology 194a: Sociology of Mental Health and Illness This course examines sociological approaches to mental health and illness. The focus of the course will be more on the history‚ definitions‚ social responses and consequences of conceptualizations and treatment of mental illness than on the development of individual conditions we deem to be mental disorders. While there will be some discussion of social factors related to mental
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Intro/Chap 1 Hegemony- ideological domination. Basic premises of Cultural Studies Basic premise semiotics (the study of how things are made to mean) For human beings‚ there are no necessary or inherent meaning in anything . Things have to be made to mean. Basic premises of semiotics Making things mean is a social and political process‚ practice‚ and struggle. Therefore‚ our sense of reality is socially and politically constructed. Basic premises of cultural studies In societies marked by institutionalized
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of freedom. International Journal of Communication 5. Bolten‚ Sanne. "Het Cyberpest-virus." Metareporter. 10 Oct. 2010. Web. 24 May 2012. . Dibbell‚ Julian. 1998. My Tiny Life: Crime and Passion in a Virtual World. New York: Henry Holt‚ 11-29. Foucault‚ Michel. 1986. Of Other Spaces. Trans. Jay Miskowiec. Diacritics 16‚ 1: 22-27. Heilbrun‚ Adam. ‘A vintage virtual reality interview.’ Whole Earth Review‚ 1988. Rheingold‚ Howard. The Virtual Community: Homesteading on the Electronic Frontier. Reading
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The concept of sexuality‚ what is socially accepted‚ what is ’natural ’‚ what is prescribed by religion‚ what is deemed deviant has been a form of social analysis‚ controversy‚ political debate and a measure of human progress. For what was considered the least talked about issue in society‚ sexuality was in many ways what defined the individual‚ their society‚ culture and the legal and moral laws that presided within it. The controllers of power were white‚ middle class‚ heterosexual men. If one
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How to write a research proposal There is no single format for research proposals. This is because every research project is different. Different disciplines‚ donor organisations and academic institutions all have different formats and requirements. There are‚ however‚ several key components which must be included in every research proposal. The specific research problem will dictate what other sections are required. Key components are: • A description of the research problem. • An argument
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|Anthropology | |Roland Barthes |Literary and Cultural Studies | |Michel Foucault |Philosophy and History | |Jacques Lacan |Psychoanalysis
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Rehabilitation vs institutionalisation The film The Shawshank Redemption addresses the process and consequences of institutionalization. Released in 1994 and directed by Frank Darabont‚ it is based on a novella by Stephen King titled Rita Hayworth and The Shawshank Redemption. Both works trace the lives of long-term prisoners in Shawshank Prison. The fictional penitentiary‚ located in Maine‚ is run by the corrupt Warden Norton and guard captain Byron Hadley‚ the former involved in money
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Cambridge: Polity Press. Hunter‚ F.‚ (1953)‚ Community Power Structure‚ Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. Innovative Issues and Approaches in Social Sciences‚ Vol. 6‚ No. 3 Innovative Issues and Approaches in Social Sciences‚ Vol. 6‚ No. 3 Michels‚ R.‚ (1927)‚ First Lectures in Political Sociology‚ New York: Harper and Row. Miliband‚ R.‚ (1969)‚ The State in Capitalist Society‚ London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson. Mills‚ C. W.‚ (1956)‚ The Power Elite‚ New York: Oxford University Press. Mintz‚
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E D W A R D W. S A I D : T R U T H ‚ J U S T I C E A N D N AT I O N A L I S M Jan Selby University of Sussex‚ UK ................ Said Foucault Chomsky nationalism Palestine ................ Within post-colonial debates‚ Edward Said has tended to be viewed by critics and admirers alike through a predominantly postmodern lens: as an (albeit inconsistent) Foucauldian genealogist of the relations between western truths and oriental subjugation‚ and as an opponent of cultural
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based on the idea that literature should be studied and intrepreted within the context of both the history of the author and the history of the critic. Based on the literary criticism of Stephen Greenblatt and influenced by the philosophy of Michel Foucault‚ New Historicism acknowledges not only that a work of literature is influenced by its author’s times and circumstances‚ but that the critic’s response to that work is also influenced by his environment‚ beliefs‚ and prejudices. New Historicist
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