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Jayla Balderas 

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23 September 2021

                                              

                                   Stigma: Notes on the Management of Spoiled Identity

Erving Goffman author of Stigma: Notes on the Management of Spoiled Identity. The book and topic offer up explanations for how society reacts towards Stigma. First talking  about the three types of stigma which are as followed: Physical Stigma, Stigma of Character traits, and Stigma of Identity. To go into brief detail of each Physical Stigma can be through disability, or even through race and the physical features assigned towards it. Stigma of Identity can fall upon people having the minority of sexual orientations. This also includes people who have experienced domestic abuse, substance abuse or have or had history with mental illness, lastly holding an occupation thought to be looked down upon such as prostitution. Stigma of Characters traits include showing weakness towards certain situations, having issues with anger management, unnatural passions, or holding what society considers out of the normal beliefs either in political aspects or religious. 

 The Article also talked about the response people take towards their traits that are usually stigmatized discussing how it can be very common in beauty standards that people will change their ethnic features through plastic surgery but while it might succeed in solving the stigma towards themselves it still ignores the larger issue. Another way people compensate for the things they are stigmatized for is by overcompensating through showing other skills that compensate for the lacking “normality”.  It's also shown that naturally the people who have felt stigmatized join together in groups either for coping or support even banding together and create movements to speak up about how they have been treated and ways society as whole can progress forward. Also the concept of Stigma Symbols either through hearing aids, cane, wearing pieces of your identity are Stigma Symbols which can depend on the person whether it becomes a something of empowerment or necessity to alert other people. Tools and mechanisms are often pushed upon people who hold stigmatized traits to try and blend them into the “normal” functioning of society. 



Crossman, Ashley. “There Are 3 Types of Social Stigmas.” ThoughtCo, www.thoughtco.com/stigma-notes-on-the-management-of-spoiled-identity-3026757.

Quinn, Diane M, and Valerie A Earnshaw. “Concealable Stigmatized Identities and Psychological Well-Being.” Social and Personality Psychology Compass, U.S. National Library of Medicine, Jan. 2013, www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3664915/#R10.







   

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