Sociology of Mental Illness Quiz 2

Question 1

What is the tendency to attribute characteristics to whole social groups?

Accepted Answer

Stereotyping

Question 2

The role of sociology in the study of mental illness is:

Accepted Answer

To examine society's response to mental illness.

Question 3

Which of the following psychological conceptions sees normality as what the majority of people do?

Accepted Answer

The statistical notion

Question 4

Which of the following perspectives in sociology offers the concept "the pathology of normalcy?"

Accepted Answer

Critical theory

Question 5

Which sociological perspective focuses on the agency of individuals to conform to or transform society?

Accepted Answer

Social realism

Question 6

What do lay people associate with mental illness?

Accepted Answer

Violence

Question 7

Social disability theory is sufficient for a complete analysis of the causes and outcomes for mental illness.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 8

Which sociological perspective looks at the relationship between social disadvantage and mental illness?

Accepted Answer

Social causation

Question 9

Which perspectives on mental illness sees mental health and mental illness as distinct, separate conditions?

Accepted Answer

The legal framework and psychiatry

Question 10

Which refers specifically to relations of shame and deviation from what is considered "normal?"

Accepted Answer

Stigma

Question 11

Mass media always portray mental illness as violent and dangerous.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 12

According to psychiatrists, what is the most common mental illness?

Accepted Answer

Depression

Question 13

Which of the following perspectives is the dominant discourse with respect to mental illness?

Accepted Answer

Psychiatry

Question 14

Which perspective says that "reality" is something humans create out of social interaction in any given moment?

Accepted Answer

Social construction

Question 15

Which perspective on mental illness was founded by Freud?

Accepted Answer

Psychoanalysis

Question 16

Not being able to conform to "feeling rules" is another signal that a person may be mentally ill.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 17

Which perspective has the power to define when patients can be detained and compulsorily treated?

Accepted Answer

The legal framework

Question 18

Psychiatrists are the first people to notice whether or not a person is mentally ill.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 19

Which perspectives on mental illness sees all of us on a continuum between mental health and mental illness?

Accepted Answer

Psychoanalysis and psychology

Question 20

People with mental illness are always "unintelligible" to others, unable to "give accounts."

Accepted Answer

False

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