One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
You will analyze concepts in the sociology of mental health through film. You can conduct an analysis on the film we watch in class, One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest. Either way, you will examine how the film illuminates and/or extends a concept in the sociology of mental health, such as the social construction of illness, medicalizing, labeling, social control, social support, stigma, deinstitutionalization, anti-psychiatry, and so on. Your analysis is a 3-4 page write up, 1) discussing the context of and briefly summarizing the clip, 2) clearly defining the concept you use, and 3) discussing in detail your application of the concept — that is, how it is illuminated and perhaps extends our understanding of the concept through the video material
