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The current literature on social class and mental disease in America: Critique and bibliography
Author(s) -
Petras John W.,
Curtis James E.
Publication year - 1968
Publication title -
behavioral science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.371
H-Index - 45
eISSN - 1099-1743
pISSN - 0005-7940
DOI - 10.1002/bs.3830130505
Subject(s) - operationalization , prestige , social class , class (philosophy) , mental disease , psychology , association (psychology) , mental illness , disease , index (typography) , bibliography , psychiatry , social psychology , social science , clinical psychology , mental health , gerontology , sociology , medicine , epistemology , political science , psychotherapist , library science , computer science , pathology , world wide web , law , philosophy , linguistics
This article presents an exhaustive survey of the literature which has concentrated upon the relationship between social class and mental disease. Studies through the year 1966 are included. For this survey, social class has been operationalized in terms of the following variables: income, occupation, prestige, residential area, or a composite index. Mental disease is operationalized in terms of clinical diagnosis, hospitalization classification, or psychiatric interview. The final section discusses trends in both theory and research over the past sixty‐five years.