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Critically evaluate studies relating to social class and schizophrenia

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Rakesh Kumar SO 532 Critically evaluate studies relating to social class and schizophrenia Introduction There have been various studies relating to social class and schizophrenia, a good place to start would be to narrow the question down and begin on a more general level making clear our understanding of social class to do this I will describe how in the UK the present class system is formed and then go onto schizophrenia. Then further going into detail of studies relating to social class and schizophrenia by listing some of the main studies then critically evaluating them, these will include Phelan who has put together forty years of work in medical sociology, Nettleton and Burrows show how "mortgage debt and insecure home ownership, Faris and Dunham where they studied the patients that came into a Chicago hospital, Lapouse et al. and Hollingshead and Redlitch concerning social drift, Phillips reporting of negative experiences with...

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