Making up people

Question 1

verschil A en B sentences

Answer 1

A-sentences: realism (does it really exist?)
B-sentences: dynamic nominalism
- what happens after a classification (name, nomen) has first been proposed?
- how does this affect the people classified? how do these people in turn affect the classification?

Question 2

the engines used in human science are engines of discovery, but also engines for making up people. statistical analysis of classes of people is a fundamental engine: we try to medicalise, and biologize. creating new names and assessments and apparant truths is enough to create new things’

Answer 2

oke

Question 3

hoe kan je het five-part framework toepassen op multiple personality disorder

Answer 3

a) classification - multiple personality
b) the people - unhappy, unable to cope
c) institutions - clinics, international society for the study of multiple personality and dissociations, talkshows
d) knowledge - beiden expert and popular knowledge
e) experts

Question 4

moving target vs looping effect

Answer 4

the person who gets a classification. they are moving targets because our investigations interact with the targets themselves, and change them. and since they have changed, they are not quite the same people as before. the target has moved. that is the looping effect.

investivations into certain classes of people inevitably changes them. so we cant really research people because the mere fact that we are researching them changes them and interacting with them means that they are not the same perople as they were before we started investigating.

(dus moving target = the person, looping effect = the phenomenon where both the targets and our investigations interact and change each other).

Question 5

wat zegt Hacking over a en b sentences

Answer 5

both are true, but different ways to look at the facts. alleen voor high functioning autism is alleen B waar!!!

in B sentences: the looping effect occurs

Question 6

looping effect=

Answer 6

the reciprocal relationship between the way certain conditions are defined, and the impact this has on society. the process of labeling or categorizing people can influence their identity, behaviour and the way they are treated, creating a feedback loop where the labelled individual internalizes and responds to the assigned label, influencing their self-perception and behavior, which in turn reinforces or modifies societal perceptions and treatment.

Question 7

what is a disorder called that only existed in a certain time and place

Answer 7

transient mental illness

Question 8

hoe omschrijf je meestal een B sentence

Answer 8

in …. this was not a way to be a person, people did not experience themselves in this way, they did not interact with friends, family, employers, counsellors in this way. but in … this was a way to be a person, to experience oneself, to live in society.

Question 9

the human sciences are driven by several engines of discovery (both finding out facts and making up people):

Answer 9

the first 7 -> engine of discovery
8 -> engine of practice
9 -> engine of administration
10 -> resistance to the knowers

1. counting
2. quantify (zoveel symptoms = autism)
3. create norms (autism disrupts established norms)
4. correlate (welke factoren?)
5. medicalise
6. biologize (biologizing relieves individuals of personal responsibility)
7. geneticise
8. normalisation (therapies aim to make deviants closer to the norm)
9. bureaucracy (identify issues and define categories)
10. resistance (bv homosexuality)

all ten engines produce effects on the kinds of people to whom they are applied and they change the boundaries and characteristics