Fanon’s idea of sociogeny explains that human distress is shaped by social and economic conditions, challenging approaches that isolate problems within the individual, with distress often a rational response to an unreasonable environment.
Evidence
Frantz Fanon and the social roots of mental health (Africa Social Work & Development Network)
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: A normal colonial child becomes abnormal on contact with the white world; Fanon developed sociogeny to articulate how socially produced phenomena come to be seen as natural or ontogenetic predispositions of particular population groups. — Sociogeny; Fanon’s theory of the ‘sociogenesis’ of mental illness critically absorbs Lévi-Strauss’s examination of the link between madness and the symbolic structure of society. — Disalienation and Structuralism (+1 more)
Related
- Fanon developed sociogeny to articulate how socially produced phenomena come to be seen as natural or ontogenetic predispositions of particular population groups. (similarity 0.93)
- Fanon’s sociogenic account holds that it is never merely the individual who is mentally ill but the pathological society of which they are part. (similarity 0.86)
- Fanon’s theory of the ‘sociogenesis’ of mental illness critically absorbs Lévi-Strauss’s examination of the link between madness and the symbolic structure of society. (similarity 0.83)
- For Fanon the point of the sociogenic principle is to reveal the artificiality of the Black-white binary, which has no meaning outside the system of racial-colonial rule that births it. (similarity 0.82)