SOC309Y1 Lecture Notes - Slut, Subcutaneous Tissue, Social Inequality
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To explore the ways in which stigma is used to control people (a social process or measure of social control) To explore the debilitating impact of stigma on people living with hiv or those at risk. Systematic review- rigorously go through a lot of studies by searching out abstracts pulling out. 1200 abstracts from social sciences literature, identify methodologies a lot today comes from. Stigma is more than a psychological process- more than anything it is a sociological process used by other people to keep others in their place, it is a function or tool of social control, not merely a psychological attribute. Some argue stigma is a social determinant of health as well their objective experience and subjective systems worsen thus very compelling area of knowledge. The diagnosis of being hiv-positive opens a new and difficult journey of re-stabilizing a life jarred from its foundations. - adam & sears (1996, p. 1)- wrote a book called.
