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The Status of Everyday Life: A Sociological Excavation of the Prevailing Framework of Perception.Fiona Mackie

Christopher Prendergast
- 01 Jul 1986 - 
- Vol. 92, Iss: 1, pp 221-224
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This article is published in American Journal of Sociology.The article was published on 1986-07-01. It has received 50 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Everyday life.

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The Emotions of Protest: Affective and Reactive Emotions In and Around Social Movements

James M. Jasper
- 01 Sep 1998 - 
TL;DR: The recent explosion of cultural work on social movements has been highly cognitive in its orientation, as though researchers were still reluctant to admit that strong emotions accompany protest as discussed by the authors. But such emotions do not render protestors irrational; emotions accompany all social action, providing both motivation and goals.
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A Handbook for the Study of Mental Health: Social Contexts, Theories, and Systems

TL;DR: It is tested whether significant differences in mental illness exist in a matched sample of Mental illness and the criminal justice system.
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Emotion-regulation skills as a treatment target in psychotherapy

TL;DR: Replacing parts of the standard CBT treatment with the emotion-regulation training enhanced the effects of theCBT treatment on skills application and on other measures of mental health.

Gender and mental health.

TL;DR: Men and women experience different kinds of mental health problems as mentioned in this paper, while women exceed men in internalizing disorders such as depression and anxiety, men exhibit more externalizing disorders, such as substance abuse and antisocial behavior, which are problematic for others.

Labeling and Stigma

TL;DR: In this article, the authors discuss the development of thinking about labeling and stigma over the past half century within the field of the sociology of mental health, and discuss the steps people take to avoid, mitigate, or overcome stigma, drawing in particular on Thoits' theoretical statements about this issue.