ANTC68H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Ridicule, Dracunculiasis, Ignaz Semmelweis
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Many different definitions (all are good, just different) Original term from greek: a permanent mark that brands someone as a criminal/traitor/slave. When a person is characterized by society in a way that differs from the characteristics that person actually possesses. Process of negative discrimination against people with certain physical, behavioral, or social attributes. A person is reduced from a whole to someone who is tainted, discounted. The way others interpret the characteristics is important. A person may start to see themself as they are stigmatized and identify with stigmatized status (called internalization ) A mark that describes how society identifies a deviant condition that initiates stigma process. : the mark makes a person flawed, spoiled, contaminated. It is something observable and it is a mark. That mark makes somebody flawed, it is a negative thing to have a birth mark. It isn"t a group of people, it is an individual: stigma is a very individual thing.
