Fanon developed sociogeny to articulate how socially produced phenomena come to be seen as natural or ontogenetic predispositions of particular population groups.

Evidence

Sociogeny (Wikipedia)

Categorization

  • XREF: connects to: A normal colonial child becomes abnormal on contact with the white world; Fanon’s sociogenesis holds that the mental illness of the colonized subject is not caused by biological factors but by the subject’s alienation by the racial ideologies of colonial modernity. — Fanon on the Dialectic of Madness and Struggle — Theoria; 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. — Frantz Fanon and the social roots of mental health (+1 more)