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Stigma power
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When people have an interest in keeping other people down, in or away, stigma is a resource that allows them to obtain ends they desire. We call this resource "stigma power" and use the term to refer to instances in which stigma processes achieve the aims of stigmatizers with respect to the exploitation, control or exclusion of others. We draw on Bourdieu (1987, 1990) who notes that power is often most effectively deployed when it is hidden or "misrecognized." To explore the utility of the stigma-power concept we examine ways in which the goals of stigmatizers are achieved but hidden in the stigma coping efforts of people with mental illnesses. We developed new self-report measures and administered them to a sample of individuals who have experienced mental illness to test whether results are consistent with the possibility that, in response to negative societal conceptions, the attitudes, beliefs and behaviors of people with psychosis lead them to be concerned with staying in, propelled to stay away and induced to feel downwardly placed - precisely the outcomes stigmatizers might desire. Our introduction of the stigma-power concept carries the possibility of seeing stigmatizing circumstances in a new light.
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Metadata
- Authors
- Link, B. G., & Phelan, J.
- Venue
- Social Science & Medicine
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2014-02
- Volume
- 103
- Pages
- 24-32
- ISSN
- 0277-9536 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W4237164654
- Cited by
- 650
- References
- 30
- FWCI
- 37.20
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- hybrid
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