Stigma

How We Treat Outsiders

By: Gerhard Falk

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Hardcover | 30 August 2001 | Edition Number 1

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What is it in human nature that leads us to label some as insiders and stigmatize others as outsiders?

Sociologist Gerhard Falk examines the social psychology that motivates this process of exclusion, focusing on the outcasts in contemporary American society and comparing current experience with examples from the past. Referring to the work of Emile Durkheim and Erving Goffman, Falk reviews the whole range of stigmatized people from the mentally ill to ordinary people with unpopular occupations, like undertakers and trash collectors. Amid the wide diversity of stigmatized persons, he finds two basic types of outsiders: the "existential" and the "achieved." The first group comprises those who are stigmatized because of their very existence, regardless of their specific actions: the mentally handicapped, for example. The second group describes those whose actions or life conditions have resulted in stigma: from high achievers (often subject to resentment) to criminals. Falk also looks at the ways in which writers past and present have dramatized stigmatized characters in literature.

This fascinating overview of a long-standing and widespread social problem will be of interest to all those concerned about creating a more fair-minded society.

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Acknowledgments	p. 7
Preface	p. 9
Introduction	p. 11
Social Psychology in Everyday Life
The Production of Stigma	p. 17
Existential Stigma
Mental Illness: The Ultimate Stigma	p. 39
Sexual Identity as Stigma: Homosexuals as "Deviants"	p. 62
Obesity: Appearance as Stigma in a Rich Society	p. 85
The Mentally Retarded or Developmentally Handicapped: Living with Stigma	p. 108
Punishment without Crime: The Stigma of Being Old	p. 129
Ex Malis Eligere Minima: Choosing the Single Life	p. 151
The Stigma of Race: Native Americans - Strangers in Their Own Land	p. 173
Achieved Stigma
Resentment Against Achievement: Stigmatizing Competence	p. 197
The Alien Among Us: The Stigma of Immigration	p. 219
"On the Streets": The Stigma of Homelessness	p. 242
Prostitutes: Stigma, Exploitation, and Contempt	p. 265
Alcoholics and Other Addicts: The Drug Culture Rejects Its Own	p. 288
The Mark of Cain: Criminals, Convicts, and Offenders	p. 311
"Logos," The Meaning of Stigma and Stigmatization	p. 333
Bibliography	p. 341
Glossary	p. 363
Index	p. 367
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