Quotes by Cultural Historians

[S]ocial change is not clearly linear and rarely totally beneficial or detrimental. Social change nearly nearly always produces positive and negative effects that are distributed differentially in the affected population.

Illnesses represent human judgments of conditions that exist in the natural world. They are essentially social constructions - products of our own creation.

...[D]eviance is an attributed designation rather than something inherent in individuals...

Too many people realize at the end of their lives that they've taken for granted those who really love them.

What each culture views as the cause of madness is dependent on its world view.