Most people outside the psychiatry expertise do not have direct experience or scholarly knowledge about mental disorders like schizophrenia. Because of this, most of the population’s understanding of mental disorders stem from the media. News and popular films through their content can create certain perceptions, or stigmas, of mental illnesses. Certain movies, like the Beautiful Mind, show schizophrenia in a positive light in which the disorder is linked to genius. On the other hand, media like the news may create a stereotype that most schizophrenics are killers and insane. In the case of negative perceptions of mental illness, the stigmas formed through such media often cause discrimination and, in the case of more positive illustrations
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This could be understood through the analysis of Ian Hacking’s idea of “classificatory looping” and a research paper, “Looping Kinds and Social Mechanisms” by Jaakko Kuorikoski and Samuli Pöyhönen. In the text Social Construction of What?, Ian Hacking introduces the idea that classifications “when known by people or by those around them, and put to work in institutions, change the way in which individual’s experience themselves-and may even lead people to evolve their feelings and behavior in part because they are so classified” (pg. 105) Through the text, Hacking identifies and discusses this phenomenon, known as classificatory looping; however, Hacking does not provide much analysis or the cause-effects of it. On the other hand, the research paper “Looping Kinds and Social Mechanisms” further analyzes Hacking’s theory and provides analysis on how the looping effect affects not only those in the category but those outside of it as well. Jaakko Kuorikoski and Samuli Pöyhönen acknowledge that the creation of classification creates a distinction between those inside the group and those outside the group, in criminology and psychiatry, also known as the “deviants” and “normals.”(pg193) This classification often alters the interactions of deviants with normals (pg. 193). This claim is important because it recognizes how classificatory looping can affect
This could be understood through the analysis of Ian Hacking’s idea of “classificatory looping” and a research paper, “Looping Kinds and Social Mechanisms” by Jaakko Kuorikoski and Samuli Pöyhönen. In the text Social Construction of What?, Ian Hacking introduces the idea that classifications “when known by people or by those around them, and put to work in institutions, change the way in which individual’s experience themselves-and may even lead people to evolve their feelings and behavior in part because they are so classified” (pg. 105) Through the text, Hacking identifies and discusses this phenomenon, known as classificatory looping; however, Hacking does not provide much analysis or the cause-effects of it. On the other hand, the research paper “Looping Kinds and Social Mechanisms” further analyzes Hacking’s theory and provides analysis on how the looping effect affects not only those in the category but those outside of it as well. Jaakko Kuorikoski and Samuli Pöyhönen acknowledge that the creation of classification creates a distinction between those inside the group and those outside the group, in criminology and psychiatry, also known as the “deviants” and “normals.”(pg193) This classification often alters the interactions of deviants with normals (pg. 193). This claim is important because it recognizes how classificatory looping can affect