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One of the goals of sociology is to understand the connections between social and personal problems. This book explores these connections by taking a scientific look at community patterns of well-being and distress. The authors critically attack the reliance placed upon clinical diagnostic tools, instead, moving towards a social model for stress research as an alternative to a medical model.

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It comes at a time when the prevailing zeitgeist in psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology devalues social explanations, dimensional approaches to symptoms, and survey designs and favors instead biological explanations, diagnostic approaches, and experimental designs. This zeitgeist deserves to be challenged. American Journal of Sociology

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Catherine E. Ross

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