SOC 233 Lecture Notes - Human Behavior, Columbine High School Massacre, Symbolic Interactionism
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Two different types: discredited stigma- the stigma is visibly known to the audience, discreditable stigma- the stigma is not visibly known. Those who have a stigma, try to hide the stigma. Those with stigmas will use strategies to try keep the stigma hidden to manage the impressions of others: They try to flip the stigma around and put it on others (ex. Someone is stigmatized for not wanting to have children. They try to justify why they have the stigma to explain that to others. However, this labeling can happen in the opposite way, where the individuals" behaviors make others look back at the past actions to label them. Eric and dylan were labeled after the fact as loners and deviant. After the event, their past behaviors were looked at and were only then labeled as deviants. No act in itself is deviant until we label it as such.
