SOCL2280 (Sociology of Mental Health) course reviews and ratings at Northeastern (NEU). Compare professors with RateMyProfessor reviews.
Explores how mental health and illness are socially constructed. Compares perspectives to illustrate how population mental health is shaped by social, political, and economic conditions. Substantive topics may include the medicalization of deviant behavior, changing definitions of mental illness across time and cultures, the social determinants of mental illness, and the responses by the mental health care system.
Data updated October 2026.