SOC 2070 Chapter Notes - Chapter 13: Compulsory Sterilization, Haredi Judaism, Erving Goffman

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 2070
• Professor: David Stanley

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The person with a stigma is not quite human. A single sin houses a multitude of other sins. Possession of one deviant trait may have a generalized symbolic value, so that the bearer possesses other undesirable traits allegedly associated with it: to be stigmatized is to possess a contaminated or discredited identity. Interactions with normal will be strained, tainted, awkward, and inhibited: highly stigmatized people walk along two paths: To resist or reject their stigmatization by forming subcultures or collectivities of persons who share their characteristics, and to treat their difference from the majority as a badge of honor (i. e. homosexuals) In the first half of the 20th century, as a result of the eugenics movement, all states n the u. s passed a law that mandated that people with an unacceptable. Roosevelt and woodrow wilson: between 1907 and 1941, 60,000 disabled people were sterilized in the u. s.