This paper critically explores the research and development of 'digital phenotyping', which broadly refers to idea that digital data can measure predict people's mental health as well their potential risk for ill health. Despite increasing efforts digitally track health, there has been little sociological critical engagement with this field. aims fill gap by introducing phenotyping social sciences. We explore origins phenotyping, concept phenotype its benefit, linking these broader...

Social theory has much to gain from taking up the challenges of conceptualizing ‘mental health’. Such an approach stunting human mental life in conditions adversity requires us open black box ‘environment’, and develop a vitalist biosocial science, informed by conversation with sciences neurosciences. In this paper we draw on both classical contemporary social begin task. We explore inhabitation – how humans inhabit their ‘ecological niches’ examine number conceptual developments that...

The purpose of this paper is to rethink the topic freedom for contemporary psychology. Freedom, within psychological research today, a neglected, even slightly old-fashioned term. In paper, we explore practical, normative, and political dimensions as concept. We begin by tracing out key understandings from theory, before discussing how thinkers such Skinner, Maslow, Fromm, May understood different freedom. then discuss governmental perspective on freedom, drawn work Nikolas Rose, finally...

This article develops the concept of infrastructuring social by analyzing uses local community work in Danish marginalized residential areas. Infrastructuring is a to describe how spaces are designated as problematic and then remade through creation materialization normative instrumental relations. The empirically demonstrates works enacting relations between residents, workers professionals from municipalities, which used move people along trajectories. These trajectories meant transport...

The relationship between biology and the psy disciplines (psychology, psychiatry, psychotherapy) is a complex one. Many scholars have criticized how these been biologized in 20th century, especially since emergence of psychopharmacology, neuroscience, genetic research. However, not just laboratory-based science chemical compounds, scanners, DNA sequencing, but also field based on observations organisms their milieus. In this paper, we draw contrast with focus brains genes, an ecology-based...

Digital phenotyping for mental health is an emerging trend which uses digital data, derived from mobile applications, wearable technologies and sensors, to measure, track predict the of individual. a growing, but as yet underexamined, field. As we will show, rapid growth raises crucial questions about values that underpin are reinforced by this technology, well regarding whom it may become valuable. In commentary, explore these focusing on construction value across two interrelated domains:...

The Danish social housing sector is currently being restructured by national strategies that seek to combat so-called 'parallel societies'. These entail especially two things: (1) tearing down and/or privatizing in marginalized and vulnerable neighbourhoods (2) repressive of governance which focus on ethnic minorities, restricting their choices schools, kindergartens interactions with services. Our argument this article despite strong attempts enforce top-down discriminatory policies, the...

This article explores how the local community projects in marginalized residential areas Denmark attempt to make ‘responsible’ residents. It has commonly been argued that contemporary governance is inflected with responsibilization, often understood as ambition citizens self-responsible and independent from welfare state. However, much less attention paid such responsibilization accomplished practice. The draws on interviews workers participant observation projects, explore process of...

In this article, we consider how certain types of contemporary biosocial psychiatric research conceptualise and explicate biology-social relations. We compare the historic biopsychosocial model to recent examples social defeat on schizophrenia cultural neuroscience work affective disorders. This comparison reveals turn towards ‘biosocial’ within relies upon ideas psychological as an interface. is problematic because notions ‘experience’ are used central mechanics processes, but lack any...

Over the last 20 years, importance of 'the social' has again become a crucial theme within psychiatric research, as evidenced for example by recent focus on social determinants mental health. However, what is less clear meant, in this kind very idea social-and consequences those ideas have. The key purpose article therefore to discuss often meant concept social'; different do; and can be at stake different, explicit implicit, understandings life that proliferate contemporary research. We...

This paper discusses the concept of social affordances in relation to theory. Our point departure is growing literature which posits, one way or another, that may be seen as social, cultural similar. Across on affordances, it thus emphasized how perception shaped within human econiches, fundamentally historical, and cultural, but limited direct engagement with decades scholarship sciences many these same topics. three key themes for theories exploring sociological perspectives meaning, place...

This article offers a critical analysis of contemporary mainstream stress research, focusing particularly on the way subjectivity is conceptualized. The shows in detail how researchers areas from biology to sociology and psychology commonly split into two concepts, namely objective, environmental “stressors” subjective responses. Simultaneously, most research also readily acknowledges that stressors are only insofar as individual perceives or appraises them be so. At heart today, this paper...

Abstract The purpose of this paper is to explore the relation between territorial stigmatization and community work in Denmark. In paper, we firstly stigmatization, relating it Danish context. We show how Denmark happens via a complex amalgamation bureaucratic practices which identify particular areas as problematic ‘ghettos’, leads top–down interventions upon many local residential areas, including work. Following this, draw on participant observations work, interviews with workers, they...

How should sociologists understand the everyday lives of those living in adversity, coping with experience structural violence? In this article, focusing on urban experience, we suggest a perspective ‘everyday life’ that can encompass corporeal, mental, relational and social dimensions, which term ‘niche sociality’. First, use Gibson’s niches affordances to enrich post-representationalist understanding human beings as embodied/cultural/environmentally embedded organisms. Second, theories for...

Social defeat is a psychiatric theory accounting for the role of social environment in aetiology psychosis via mechanism stress. stems from animal studies stress, whereby small rat introduced into larger rat’s cage and subsequently attacked defeated by its foe. The subjected to behavioural hormonal analyses explore stress levels. idea that leads which may cause psychoses. In this article, we draw on work Jean-Paul Selten critique epistemics are bound up with research. For comparative...

The purpose of this article is to explore how practices translation shape particular paths inclusion for people living in marginalized residential areas Denmark. Inclusion, we argue, not an end-state but rather something that must be constantly performed. Active citizenship, today, merely a question participation also learning become active all spheres life. draws on empirical examples from multisite fieldwork six different sites local community work Denmark, demonstrate dimensions are...

Denne artikel tegner en kort teoretisk skitse af situeret psykologi. Vi argumenterer for, at psykologi tilbyder fornyet opmærksomhed på række fællestræk i bred og broget (og delvist marginaliseret) traditioner psykologien. Her er psyken det psy-kologiske blevet teoretiseret som afhængigt den historiske, materielle, sociale, relationelle og/eller kulturelle virkelighed. Disse ideer handler om, psykologiske udspiller sig relation til vores miljø, omgivelser, relationer. I artiklen udfolder vi...

This article produces an encounter between the concept of 'social pathology' and work philosopher Bruno Latour. It offers introduction to Latour's style thought with regard subjectivity. argues that subjectivity is not interiorized property people, but a processual accomplishment from associating different actors, which may be human or non-human. Subjectivity, this point view, exists in interstice affecting world being affected. Building on Latourian perspective, goes argue social...

Denne artikel undersøger, om 'performance management'-eller på dansk præstationsledelse— er et effektivt svar de udfordringer, som organisationer står overfor i krisetider. I tiden efter finanskrisen september 2008 det blevet endnu mere relevant for ledere at kunne navigere en brydningsfyldt krisetid, hvor fast grund under fødderne svær finde. artiklen argumenteres for, ledelse sådan krisetid godt kan drage inspiration fra præstationsledelsesparadigmet og dets fokus styring, kontrol læring,...