SOCIOL 2CC3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Social Stigma, Visible Minority, Erving Goffman
19 Apr 2020
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Durkheim 1st sociologist to explore social stigma and its relationship to deviance. How difference is undesirable from social perspective. Societal implications of stigma - how affects social structure, order, and cohesion. Impacts to those who deviate from some societal norm. Mark of disgrace associated with particular circumstance, quality or person. Synonymous with shame, dishonor, stain, taint, blemish, mark or slur. Modern sociological concept of stigma associated with goffman. Of import, his concept of spoiled id. An identity that causes an individual to experience stigma. Results from possession of deeply discrediting behavior, attribute or condition. Eg. physical deformity, mental illness, deviant behavior. Involves process by which individuals pass from normal status to discredited or discreditable one. Physical deformity and difference, visible disability or disease. Eg. walk with a limp, blindness, aids. Undesirable behaviors and attitudes - weak willed, dishonest. Eg. gay men as effeminate, lesbians as masculine. Group affiliation - religious, ethnic, gender, social class.
