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How might sociologists and psychologists approach the question of mental illness, homelessness, or deviance? How might they go about selecting an appropriate method of analysis? Sociologists and psychologists are usually helping people overcome mental illness, homelessness, and deviance in the same way. Deviance and mental illness are very similar, and sometimes are mistaken with the other. “While not all deviants are considered mentally ill, almost all mentally ill persons are considered deviant (since mental illness is not considered "normal")” (Crossman). Due to this, when deviance is being studied, mental illness is as well. The three main ideas of sociology regarding mental illness are a little different, however they all look to the social systems in which mental illness is: define, identified, and treated. Sociologists and psychologists want to continue to recognize mental illness and deviance because they want to prove to society that people do care. Homelessness becomes a question when sociologists and psychologists are worried about ones’ safety, their shelter (or lack there of), and their money situation. Some sociologists/psychologists believe people become homeless due to their lack of happiness (or a mental illness). Again, a way to approach homelessness would be by defining homelessness, identifying homelessness, and “treating” homelessness. First treating the root of the problem (for example, they’re homeless because they are too depressed to go out and find a job), then “curing” the problem (by helping them find shelter, and helping them find a job). The most common techniques for data collection are individual interviews that do not push information out of the person, focus groups, document reviews, and participant observation. Strategies for analysis are usually inductive, based on principles of grounded theory or intentionality. Qualitative methods are also used in combination with quantitative methods in mixed method designs for confluence, commendatory, expansion, development, and sampling. Qualitative methods offer the most help in the scientific sense of mental health and the research sociologists and psychologists need in order to help the person in need (Palinkas).

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