Michèle Lamont on stigma / David Edmonds.
The manifestation of stigma and those who are stigmatised differs over time and place. In this Social Science Bites podcast, Michèle Lamont introduces us to stigma as the 'negative characterisation of any social attribute'. She asks how certain attributes, such as mental health, lower-soci...
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| Format: | Streaming audio |
| Language: | English |
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SAGE Publications Ltd.,
2021.
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| Series: | Social Science Bites.
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| Summary: | The manifestation of stigma and those who are stigmatised differs over time and place. In this Social Science Bites podcast, Michèle Lamont introduces us to stigma as the 'negative characterisation of any social attribute'. She asks how certain attributes, such as mental health, lower-socioeconomic labour and obesity come to be viewed as negative characteristics and discusses how researchers can go about studying the phenomena.Lamont uses the example of contact theory to discuss stigma; that is, if there's an increased interaction between individuals who belong to different groups, they develop a greater understanding of those other groups and how they function, which may counteract stereotypes.During the discussion, Lamont and David Edmonds discuss her work with colleagues in the United States, Brazil and Israel, where they conducted more than 400 ethnographic, insider researcher interviews to examine and establish patterns on how those who are stigmatised experience, receive and respond to racism and discrimination. They also questioned how these experiences can differ, both across these cultures and by gender.Lamont and Edmonds also discuss how culture impacted the ways in which the researchers approached the interviews and the obstacles they had to overcome to conduct the research. For example, participants in the United States for Lamont's research were compensated $20 to be interviewed; however, the research team was advised that those in Brazil would have perceived payment to be insulting. They therefore needed to acknowledge that the meaning of money across countries will also differ. Lamont further introduces the phenomena of self-stigma, where people wish to differentiate themselves from others in the group, creating intergroup boundaries. |
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