Literature Review Blog #2
1) Visual:
2) Citation:
Becker, Dana. One Nation under Stress: Social Uses of the Stress Concept. Oxford University
Press,2013.
3) Summary:
This book illustrates the trouble with stress as an Idea. Dana Becker's primary concern is that stress is being misinterpreted and quickly diagnosed as a disease which "helped us avoid tackling Larger social problems".
4) Authors: Dana Becker
5) Key terms:
1) "We are bombarded with frightening stories about the harm stress can do to our health and our emotional states and how we can manage stress or fight its effects... this diffuseness gives the stress concept great versatility when it comes to explaining human dilemmas"
2) "The chameleon-like nature of the stress concept makes it possible to obscure or conceal social problems by individualizing them in ways that most disadvantage those who have the least to gain from the status quo-among them women and the poor"
3) "technologies of the self," practices that, as he put it, enable people to "operate on their own bodies and souls, thoughts, conduct, and way of being, so as to transform themselves in order to attain a certain state of happiness, purity, wisdom, perfection, or immortality"
7) Value: This book is important to the development of my thesis pertaining to the misinterpretation of stress and treating it discordantly; which can have a greater toll on people.
2) Citation:
Becker, Dana. One Nation under Stress: Social Uses of the Stress Concept. Oxford University
Press,2013.
This book illustrates the trouble with stress as an Idea. Dana Becker's primary concern is that stress is being misinterpreted and quickly diagnosed as a disease which "helped us avoid tackling Larger social problems".
4) Authors: Dana Becker
5) Key terms:
- Stress
- Anxiety
- Depression
- Medicalized
1) "We are bombarded with frightening stories about the harm stress can do to our health and our emotional states and how we can manage stress or fight its effects... this diffuseness gives the stress concept great versatility when it comes to explaining human dilemmas"
2) "The chameleon-like nature of the stress concept makes it possible to obscure or conceal social problems by individualizing them in ways that most disadvantage those who have the least to gain from the status quo-among them women and the poor"
3) "technologies of the self," practices that, as he put it, enable people to "operate on their own bodies and souls, thoughts, conduct, and way of being, so as to transform themselves in order to attain a certain state of happiness, purity, wisdom, perfection, or immortality"
7) Value: This book is important to the development of my thesis pertaining to the misinterpretation of stress and treating it discordantly; which can have a greater toll on people.
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