EAN: 9780387756998

MENTAL HEALTH SOCIAL MIRROR KARTONIERT (TB)

In 2004  the discipline of sociology celebrated the 100th anniversary of the founding of the
American Sociological Association. In 2005  the Section on Medical Sociology celebrated 50
years since the formation of the Committee on Medical Sociology within the ASA. And  in 2003 
the Section on the Sociology of Mental Health celebrated ten years since its founding within
the American branch of the discipline. This brief accounting marks the American-based or-
nizational landmarks central to concerns about how social factors shape the mental health
problems individuals face as well as the individual and system responses that follow. This
history also lays a trail of how the focus on mental health and illness has narrowed from a
general concern of the discipline to a more intense  substantively-focused community of
scholars targeting a common set of specific theoretical and empirical questions. While mental
health and illness figured prominently in the writings of classical sociologists  contem- rary
sociologists often view research on mental health as peripheral to the ¿real work¿ of the
discipline. The sentiment  real or perceived  is that the sociology of mental health  along
with its sister  medical sociology  may be in danger of both losing its prominence in the
discipline and losing its connection to the ma- stream core of sociological knowledge
(Pescosolido & Kronenfeld  1995).

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