ANTC68H3 Lecture Notes - Oral Rehydration Therapy, Learned Helplessness, Stage Fright
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Stigma: lot of good different definitions, greek: a permanent mark that brands someone as a criminal/traitor/slave, goffman (1963) Attribute that is deeply discrediting, process of negative discrimination against people with certain physical, behavioral, or social attributes, difference between person"s internal characteristics and outward supposed perception. Stigma is an individual thing, less than whole, how society identifies a deviant condition that initiates stigma process. Disruptiveness how does it impact interpersonal interactions (mental competency is low) Origin how condition came into being, level of perceived responsibility; moral dimension. Peril- feelings of danger induced in others: crocker et al (1998), social psychologists. When an objective characteristic of a person leads to negatively valued social identity. How a person sees themselves depends largely on social context. Some diseases are valued epilepsy is valued. Standards of beauty: fat skinny: kurzban and leary (2001); evolutionary psychologists. Based on natural selection, why it persists perhaps for adaptive reasons. We want to increase reproductive fitness propagate our genes.
