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Social Causes of Psychological Distress (Social Institutions and Social Change)

Authors:John Mirowsky, Catherine E. Ross
Publisher: Aldine Transaction
Keywords: social, change, institutions, psychological, causes, distress
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 2003-03-01
List price: $25.95
ISBN-10: 0202307093
ISBN-13: 9780202307091

Book Description:

The polemical aspects of Mirowsky and Ross’s first edition caused a stir both in public health and in sociological circles. The new, second edition traverses the same terrain, though updating, and adds sections on "patterns" and new surveys research. In these pages the authors summarize, synthesize, and elaborate their observations and thoughts from two decades of research. Their views remain, for the most part, firm, and in an age that is still more therapeutic than not, will cause new controversy.

CONTENTS

I Introduction • 1 Introduction • II Researching the Causes of Distress • 2 Measuring Psychological Well-Being and Distress • 3 Real-World Causes of Real-World Misery • III Social Patterns of Distress • 4 Basic Patterns • 5 New Patterns • IV Explaining the Patterns • 6 Life Change: An Abandoned Explanation • 7 Alienation • 8 Authoritarianism and Inequity • V Conclusion • 9 Why Some People Are More Distressed Than Others • 10 Appendix • References • Index


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