Assignment
• Sociologically, what is mental illness as an officially recognized category of deviance?
• What perspective downplays or ignores the social foundations of deviance?
• What is the most commonly identified mental illness in the U.S. today?
• What is the perspective of "Pharmacracy"?
• What is the policy importance of Erving Goffman's book Asylums?
• What is an example of a multifaceted theory about mental disorders?
• What is the most common pathway through which mental illness leads to incarceration?
• What proportion of the mentally ill pose threats of serious violence?
• What is an example of "contextual sensitivity" in mental illness diagnoses?
• What is "alienation in place" with regard to mental health careers?
• What type of stress is most likely to lead to mental illness?
• Describe "stigma management strategies" of the mentally ill.
• Describe examples of "in-group stigma management."
• Sociologically, what are body-type ideals and the moral imputations attached to them?
• When, where, and under what conditions did the cultural idealization of slim bodies emerge?
• As women in the U.S. and Europe gained cultural and legal freedoms during the 20th century, what body-type ideal did they increasingly confront?
• What social categories of persons in the U.S. most intensely confront the ideal of the slim body?
• What are the components of today's "body panic"?
• Describe whether gender and sexual identities are fixed or potentially varying over a person's life?
• What is "transgender"?
• Historically and cross culturally, how rare or prevalent have same-sex sexual activities been? To what extent have they been associated with defined sexual identities?
• When and how did the official classification of homosexuality as a mental illness end in the U.S.?
• Describe examples of "interpretive licensing in defining sexuality" (specifically in this case, engaging in some sort of same-sex "sexual" activity without self-identifying as LGBTQ).
• In what context is the process of "coming out" socially meaningful?
• What have been the key political features of "stigma management" among LGBTQ communities in recent decades?
• According to the textbook, what should the long-term goal from a "liberationist" LGBTQ perspective be?
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