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Social Stigma of People with Dementia

Journal of Alzheimer's Disease, 2020
In a broad sense, the concept of social stigmatization (from the Greek word “stigma”, or sign) refers to the attitude of social disapproval and the negative reception of a specific group of people due to the characteristic features of this group. The problem of stigma affects many people, and it is also present in medicine and affects people with ...
Magdalena, Rewerska-Juśko   +1 more
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Unemployment and social stigma

International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy, 2020
PurposeThis article aims to highlight the stigmatization attached to the unemployment of educated youth in rural regions of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan.Design/methodology/approachThe study explicates the subjective experiences of the youth as being unemployed and societal attitudes toward them through an in-depth qualitative approach.
Rahat Shah   +4 more
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Youth Homelessness and Social Stigma

Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 2006
Building upon previous exploratory qualitative research (Kidd SA (2003) Child Adol Social Work J 20(4):235-261), this paper examines the mental health implications of social stigma as it is experienced by homeless youth. Surveys conducted with 208 youths on the streets and in agencies in New York City and Toronto revealed significant associations ...
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Pregnancy: A social stigma?

Sex Roles, 1977
Experimental evidence is presented which explores the social stimulus value of pregnancy. It was found that, for men especially, the pregnant woman elicits avoidance and staring and that these responses occur primarily because pregnancy is a novel visual stimulus.
Shelley E. Taylor, Ellen J. Langer
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Stigma and Social Inequality

2014
Since the publication in 1963 of Goffman’s book, Stigma: Notes on the Management of Spoiled Identity the use of stigma concepts has grown enormously. For scores of stigmatizing circumstances the stigma concept provides a way to give expression to the social predicaments people encounter.
Bruce G. Link   +2 more
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Social stigma and prostitution

International Annals of Criminology, 1967
This is an attempt to replicate the stigma theory of crime and deviation to the etiology of prostitution in authoritarian, oriental families. The Stigma Theory has recently been formulated in volume length. The present paper proposes to apply this theory in a researchable form to the genesis of prostitution as reflected in a ...
Shlomo Shoham, Giora Rahav
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Stigma and social control [PDF]

open access: possible, 2002
Social interactions provide a set of incentives for regulating individual behavior. Chief among these is stigma, the status loss and discrimination that results from the display of stigmatized attributes or behaviors. The stigmatization of behavior is the enforcement mechanism behind social norms.
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