Lecture 3 Flashcards
Examples of Stigma
Undesired pregnancy
Adoption
LMBTQ
Living with disabilities
Types of Stigmas (Ervin Goffman)
Physical (disabilities)
Moral (e.g. prostitution)
Racial, National
Ascribed stigma
Natural born stigma (e.g. blind) Mankoff
Achieved stigma
Criminal Mankoff
Possible causes and process of stigmatisation
Chaos and order
Fear
Normal v. abnormal
Reaction to stigmatism
Escape (plastic surgery)
Searching for positive meaning
Hiding (family secret)
Emotional reactions to stigmatisation
Shame, aggressive, pity, inferiority complex, accusation, and acceptance.
Process of discrediting
Lack of contact e.g. eye contact
Emphasise opposite opinions
Prejudice
Adaption to stigmatising diseases (Schneider and Conrad)
Balanced and unbalanced.
Pragmatic adaption
Balanced: (minimise significance of the disease to themselves and disclose it only to the those who need to know it)
Quasi relieved adaption
Don’t conceal the disease but strive to let everyone know about it.
Unbalanced adaption
can’t cope with negative effect leading to debilitation or inhabitation in which the stigmatised person’s main job is to be stigmatised
Doctor’s Task
Natural behaviour
Providing priority
Involving the caregivers
Involving the person living with disability
