Narrating Social Order : : Agoraphobia and the Politics of Classification / / Shelley Z. Reuter.
Agoraphobia, the fear of open spaces, has received minimal attention from sociologists. Yet implicit within psychiatric discussion of this disease is a normative account of society, social order, social ordering, and power relations, making agoraphobia an excellent candidate for sociological interpr...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016] ©2007 |
| Year of Publication: | 2016 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- 1. Introduction: A Sociology of Psychiatry
- 2. Urban Modernity and Social Change: Diagnosing Alienation
- 3. Explaining Agoraphobia: Three Frameworks
- 4. The Prerogative of Being 'Normal': Gender, 'Race,' and Class
- 5. The DSM and the Decline of the Social
- 6. Conclusion: Doing Agoraphobia(s) - The Social Relations of Psychiatric Knowledge
- Notes
- References
- Index