Lecture 3

Question 1

Examples of Stigma

Answer 1

Undesired pregnancy
Adoption
LMBTQ
Living with disabilities

Question 2

Types of Stigmas (Ervin Goffman)

Answer 2

Physical (disabilities)
Moral (e.g. prostitution)
Racial, National

Question 3

Ascribed stigma

Answer 3

Natural born stigma (e.g. blind) Mankoff

Question 4

Achieved stigma

Answer 4

Criminal Mankoff

Question 5

Possible causes and process of stigmatisation

Answer 5

Chaos and order
Fear
Normal v. abnormal

Question 6

Reaction to stigmatism

Answer 6

Escape (plastic surgery)
Searching for positive meaning
Hiding (family secret)

Question 7

Emotional reactions to stigmatisation

Answer 7

Shame, aggressive, pity, inferiority complex, accusation, and acceptance.

Question 8

Process of discrediting

Answer 8

Lack of contact e.g. eye contact
Emphasise opposite opinions
Prejudice

Question 9

Adaption to stigmatising diseases (Schneider and Conrad)

Answer 9

Balanced and unbalanced.

Question 10

Pragmatic adaption

Answer 10

Balanced: (minimise significance of the disease to themselves and disclose it only to the those who need to know it)

Question 11

Quasi relieved adaption

Answer 11

Don’t conceal the disease but strive to let everyone know about it.

Question 12

Unbalanced adaption

Answer 12

can’t cope with negative effect leading to debilitation or inhabitation in which the stigmatised person’s main job is to be stigmatised

Question 13

Doctor’s Task

Answer 13

Natural behaviour
Providing priority
Involving the caregivers
Involving the person living with disability