SOCIOL 2CC3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Social Stigma, Erving Goffman, Norm (Social)
4 Sep 2018
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Important concept in sociology: durkheim first sociologist to explore social stigma & its relationship to deviance. Impacts to inds who deviate from some societal norm: what stigmas do to society, how difference undesirable form social perspective, modern conceptualization of stigma attributed to goffman, how inds pass from normal status to discredit. Early greek usage: meant unacceptable behaviour or deviant moral traits. Included marking of the body of id disgraced inds. Christian/western usage 2 meanings: 1) stigmata. Body marks, sores relating to crucifixion wounds: 2) social stigmata. Extreme disapproval of inds/group due to some distinguishing social characteristic. Is to give meaning to something where the meaning did not already exist: & which violates an accepted moral social norm. Goffman spoiled identity: an identity that causes inds to experience stigma, due to possession of a deeply discrediting attribute or condition. Goffman identified 3 types of stigma: 1) body stigmas: physical. Physical deformity & difference, visible disability or disease.
