Stigma: How We Treat Outsiders
Stigma: How We Treat Outsiders
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耻辱:我们如何对待外人
DOI:
10.1176/appi.ps.53.12.1643
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发表时间:
2002
影响因子:
3.8
通讯作者:
Jackie Goldstein
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作者:
Jackie Goldstein
A mental health worker in India who deals constantly with the stigma of mental illness in his own country was surprised to learn that this stigma exists in the United States. I wondered about the source of his surprise. Are we viewed as too educated, too enlightened, too wise to be guilty of intolerance? Gerhard Falk's latest book, Stigma: How We Treat Outsiders, suggests that anyone is a potential member of at least one stigmatized group and that most likely all of us, even the educated and enlightened, are capable of treating others differently because of our perception of them as" outsiders."During his long career as an educator and author, Falk, a sociology professor at the State University of New York at Buffalo, has addressed specific types of stigma in various scholarly works, more than 50 in number. However, in this, his 12th book, he describes and discusses 13 different types of stigma, devoting a chapter to a description of the evolution and history of each type as well as research and statistics exploring the social consequences of that stigma.