PSYC12H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Ingroups And Outgroups, Learned Helplessness, Eval
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P s y c 1 2 l e c t u r e 6. *mid to late 90"s is when study of stigmatization gathered steam. : what is stig. in one place may not be stig. in another place e. g. ster. a/b. Muslim people would lead them to be charact. as a stig. group but if you go to a muslim country being muslim isn"t a stig. charact. locally where globally it might be. Goffman: wrote first treatments of stigma - stigmatized has a spoiled id, something that is disvalued; discrim. against on all different dimensions: econ. , housing, interpers. , jobs, etc. 3 types of stigma: a) aspect of phys. body (abominations of body), b) something about you as a person (blemishes of character), c) things like ethnicity and race (tribal markers) E. g. hyperhydrosis and sweating a lot, metabolism problems, cleft palette. Things that mark id based on colour of skin, way we dress based on relig. adherence, ethnicity.
