SOC 2106 Chapter 5: conceptualizing stigma notes

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 2106
• Professor: Sam Alvaro

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Conceptualizing stigma link & phelan: notes society. Stigma: a characteristic of persons that is contrary to a norm of a social unit. Stigmatizes individual possess an attribute that conveys a social identity that is devalued in. Stigmas are marks that link a person to undesirable characteristics. Challenges to the stigma concept: lived experience of people that they study. Many social scientists study stigma from the vantage point of theories that do not know the. Research on stigma has an individualistic focus. Literature on discrimination is far less extensive than that on stereotyping and more attention needs to be paid t structural issues. Stigma can be seen as the relationship between an attribute and a stereotype. De ning stigma in the relationship of interrelated components: Stigma exists when the following 4 components converge. Important attributes de ned as negative change always. The randomly selected attribute is linked to a negative fact that is devalued in a particular.