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Thomas J. Scheff

Autor(a) de Being mentally ill : a sociological theory

17+ Works 135 Membros 3 Críticas

About the Author

Thomas J. Scheff is Professor Emeritus of Sociology, University of California, Santa Barbara. He is author of Emotions, the Social Bond, and Human Reality; Bloody Revenge; Catharsis in Healing, Ritual, and Drama; and coauthor of Emotions and Violence.

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Associated Works

Shame: Interpersonal Behavior, Psychopathology, and Culture (Series in Affective Science) (1998) — Contribuidor, algumas edições17 exemplares

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Conhecimento Comum

Data de nascimento
1929
Sexo
male
Nacionalidade
USA
Ocupações
sociologist
social psychologist

Membros

Críticas

most of it is blithe and uninspired restatements of schutz and goffman's thoughts on emotion; the best part is his essay on genius which is thorough, straight forward, sustained, but powerful in its implications
 
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sashame | Nov 13, 2020 |
The theory of mental illness is that the symptoms of mental illness can be considered to be violations of residual social norms, and that the careers of residual deviants can most effectively be considered as dependent on the societal reaction and the processes of roleplaying, when role-playing is viewed as part of a social rather than an exclusively individual system.

The theoretical formulation of symptoms as normative violations places great stress on the social context in which symptomatic behavior occurs as do the findings concerning the nearly automatic procedures in psychiatric screening. Implied in these considerations is a relationship among symptoms, context, and meaning that may be important in future research.… (mais)
 
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antimuzak | 1 outra crítica | Jan 23, 2006 |

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Estatísticas

Obras
17
Also by
1
Membros
135
Popularidade
#150,831
Avaliação
½ 3.3
Críticas
3
ISBN
39
Línguas
2

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