SOCI 398 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Social Control, Health Technology, Alprazolam
18 Feb 2017
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Stigma: absence of social acceptance and marginalization due to negative societal attitudes, feelings, perceptions, representations and acts of discrimination. The stigmatized person is often poor and lacks resources. Stigmatization and marginalization comes from three main sources: intimate process of social control and censorship among family and friends. Are effective, but result in the family and friends pushing the user out of the family or into treatment: decisions by social agents and agencies. Focus on the most problematic cases and amplify their marginalization: policy decisions at local or national levels. Policy decisions to be tough on drugs carries the potential to stigmatize those who do not conform. Symbolism is attached to the use and non-use of substance. Preventive effects: stigmatization is good because it is a means of social control that prevents people from engaging in deviant behaviors. If people do not engage in the behaviors, no one will become stigmatized. We stigmatize drunk driving in order to prevent it.
