SOCIOL 2C06 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Vern Bullough, Social Stigma, Boogie 2Nite
9 Apr 2016
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Signiied unacceptable behavior or deviant moral traits: used to idenity disgraced inds. Chrisian/western usage - 2 meanings (i) sigmata. Body marks, sores corresponding to crusiixion wounds (ii) social sigma. Mark of disgrace or infamy - stain against ones reputaion. Based on extreme disapproval of ind or group. Where meaning did not exist smoking cigaretes. Impuing meaning in contradisincion to a norm. Moral and negaive judgement are irresponsible if smoke. Process based on the social construcion of idenity. Involves deeply discrediing atributes or condiion. Special kind of relship between an atribute & a stereotype. Sigma: gofman ideniies 3 types of sigma, body stigmas physical. Limp, blindness, aids (kaposi"s sarcoma: character stigmas personal. Undesirable behaviours & aitudes - weak willed, dishonest. Alcoholic, homosexual, unemployed: tribal stigmas social. Group membership religious, ethnic, gender, social class. Sigma discredited: gofman disinguishes between 2 types of sigma: Knowing an ind is a former convict: main challenges for discredited are:
