Stigma: It Is All About Undesirable differentness Stigma is about norms. A certain section of the society ascribes it, mandates it, and enforces it. In the literature on stigma, such groups of people who ascribe are the ‘normals’. Those that do not conform to the norm prescribed by the normals are the ‘deviants’. The deviants encounter stigma from the normals. They possess an attribute that is...
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