SOC 2070 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Disability Rights Movement, Man Man, Erving Goffman
7 Dec 2016
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Stigma: a quality or attribute that is deeply discrediting and that has the power to interrupt social and personal relationships, undermines smooth flowing social interaction, Blemish of character (ex. known to be aggressive) Physical incapacity (e. g. , physical disability) bodily impairments that limits function. Violation of aesthetic norms norms regarding how people ought to look. Obese bodies in european middle ages, association between physical disability and the devil. Assumption that god man man in his image, as such, any physical body that did not display the healthy image of a normal man, they were the work of satan; treated with scorn and ridicule. Late 19th to mid 20th century eugenics movement. Sterilization of mentally and physically disabled; would sterilize anyone who showed signs of physical abnormality. Sought to exterminate mentally and physically unfit . Today, physically disabled remain stigmatized (or treated with ambivalence)
