PSY100H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Gay Bar, Bulimia Nervosa, Erving Goffman
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Mathew sheppard went to a gay bar, met two men, kidnapped, tied to a fence and died a few days later. Until now we would not discuss the perceiver"s point of view. All the point of the view of the perceiver. What the effects of prejudice are on various kinds of people. The lion"s story will never be told as long as the hunter is telling the story . Possession of a trait/characteristic that is devalued by society. Abominations of body: things that make you look different, (extremely overweight, deformity, excessive sweating) Blemishes of character: (dementia, mental illness, anorexia or bulimia, and can include any kind of personality traits. ) Tribal markers: gender, age, clothing, religion, race. (separation among people, on tribe or another) Three sings that cause people to make an identify threat appraisal. (i"m being discriminated against) B: situational cues: cues communicating stigma relevance, from the environment.
