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Lecture #10

  1. Erving Goffman (1963) denoted 3 types of stigmas
    • abominations of the body 
    • blemishes of the individual character 
    • tribal stigmas of race, nation, and religion
  2. stigma
    the possession of a trait/characteristic that is devalued by society
  3. Major & O'Brian's Identity threat model of stigma
    assumes that possessing a devalued social identity increases one's exposure to a potentially stressful situation
  4. what are the three coping strategies addressed in recent research, which are all volitional coping strategies elicited in repsonse to identity-threat situations;
    • attributing negative events to discrimination (vs. to the self)
    • disengaging self-esteem and effort from identity-threatening domains (vs. engaging and striving in these domains)
    • increasing identification with one's stigmatized group (vs. distancing oneself from the group)
  5. outcomes of stigmatization
    • self-esteem
    • health
    • academic achievement
  6. collective self-esteem
    the part of an individual's self-concept that derives from his/her knowledge of his/her membership in a social group
  7. crocker and Major (1989) investigated 3 specific ways in which members of a stigmatized group protect their self-esteem
    • attributional ambiguity 
    • comparing their outcomes with those of the in-group, rather than with the relatively advantaged out-group
    • selectively devaluing those dimensions on which their group fares poorly and valuing those dimensions on which their group excels
  8. attributional ambiguity
    the stigmatized are confronted with another possible causal explanation: others reactions might be based on stereotypes and prejudices to their stigma
  9. outcomes of stigmatization: health
    • depression
    • hypertension
    • coronary heart disease
    • stroke
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