Examples of stigma in the following topics:
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- Stigma plays a primary role in sociological theory.
- In his work, Goffman presented the fundamentals of stigma as a social theory, including his interpretation of "stigma" as a means of spoiling identity.
- Goffman identified three main types of stigma: (1) stigma associated with mental illness; (2) stigma associated with physical deformation; and (3) stigma attached to identification with a particular race, ethnicity, religion, ideology, etc.
- Ultimately, stigma is about social control.
- Without a society, one cannot have stigma.
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- Another important element of labeling theory involves the idea of stigma.
- Stigma refers to the situation of the individual who is disqualified from full social acceptance because of some mark of infamy or disgrace or a label that is often difficult to hide or disguise.
- Stigma extend the idea of labeling theory by illustrating how individual characteristics can be the basis for attaching labels that can be life-altering.
- A good example of a stigma that is now increasingly difficult to hide is the publishing of convicted sex offender identities and information on websites (see here for an example).
- The stigma is the past behavior - the sex offense - but this identity is relatively easily hidden as it impossible to pick a sex offender out of a crowd.
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- Informal deviance, or violation of unwritten, social rules of behavior, results in social sanction, or stigma.
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- As the stigma associated with out-of-wedlock births has faded over the years, and the number of such births has increased, shotgun weddings have become less common.
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- This makes other individuals more likely to present their own ideas and point out flaws in others and reduces the stigma associated with being the first to take negative stances.
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- One factor that contributes to the high recidivism rates is the social stigma that accompanies having been convicted of a felony in the US. van Olphen et al. (2009)[12] found that individuals convicted of drug offenses were very likely to be reincarcerated, largely due to punitive punishments that accompanied their "convicted felon" stigma.
- Finally, the stigma associated with spending time in prison leads to substantially worse physical and mental health for ex-cons,[14] including higher rates of chronic illness, disability, psychiatric disorders, major depression, and anxiety.
- Millions of additional jobs and even lives are lost as a result of the stigma that follows prison inmates when released (which also explains the high recidivism rate).
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- Social stigma also contributes to homelessness.
- In the past, some purported solutions have been more attentive to the desires of privileged members of society than to the homeless; they have reinforced stigma and criminalized vagrancy in an attempt to sweep the problem under the rug.
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- This process works because of stigma; in applying a deviant label, one attaches a stigmatized identity to the labeled individual .
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- A red ribbon has been used as a symbol to show solidarity with HIV/AIDS patients, and is an example of an activist attempt to overturn the stigma associated with the infection.
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- Labeling theory concerns itself not with the normal roles that define our lives, but with those very special roles that society provides for deviant behavior, called deviant roles, stigmatic roles, or social stigma.