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This book addresses how people think about inequalities of race, gender, class, status, and power, and it focuses on why social inequality is perceived as fair and legitimate. Work on stereotyping and internalization of inferiority helps to explain why the oppressed do not revolt. The book has important implications for leadership and politics and for understanding how businesses and governments maintain their legitimacy to customers and public audiences.
Stigma leads to poorer health. Edited by Brenda Major, John F.
Dovidio, and Bruce G. Link, The Oxford Handbook of Stigma,
Discrimination, and Health provides compelling evidence from
various disciplines in support of this thesis and explains how and
why health disparities exist and persist. Stigmatization involves
distinguishing people by a socially conferred "mark," seeing them
as deviant, and devaluing and socially excluding them. The core
insight of this book is that the social processes of stigma
reliably translate into the biology of disease and death.
Contributors elucidate this insight by showing exactly how stigma
negatively affects health and creates health disparities through
multiple mechanisms operating at different levels of influence.
Understanding the causes and consequences of health disparities
requires a multi-level analysis that considers structural forces,
psychological processes, and biological mechanisms. This volume's
unique multidisciplinary approach brings together social and health
psychologists, sociologists, public health scholars, and medical
ethicists to comprehensively assess stigma's impact on health. It
goes beyond the common practice of studying one stigmatized group
at a time to examine the stigma-health link across multiple
stigmatized groups. This broad, multidisciplinary framework not
only illuminates the significant effects stigma has when aggregated
across the health of many groups but also increases understanding
of which stigma processes are general across groups and which are
particular to specific groups. Here, a compendium of leading
international experts point readers toward potential policy
responses and possibilities for intervention as well as to the
large gaps in understanding that remain. This book is the
definitive source of scholarship on stigma and physical health for
established and emerging scholars, practitioners, and students in
psychology, sociology, public health, medicine, law, political
science, geography, and the allied disciplines.
This book addresses how people think about inequalities of race, gender, class, status, and power, and it focuses on why social inequality is perceived as fair and legitimate. Work on stereotyping and internalization of inferiority helps to explain why the oppressed do not revolt. The book has important implications for leadership and politics and for understanding how businesses and governments maintain their legitimacy to customers and public audiences.
Neo is just about to turn six, and he already knows how hard it can
be to make new friends. One day, while sitting outside, he spots a
balloon-the bluest balloon he's ever seen-trapped in the tree in
his front yard. Neo makes it his mission to rescue the balloon, and
then, he and the balloon can be best friends forever. This proves
more difficult than he thought ... First, Neo meets a hungry
squirrel in search of hidden nuts. The squirrel's name is Bob, and
Bob promises to help Neo get his balloon if Neo helps him find his
snack stash. To Neo's dismay, the tree doesn't like being climbed
and even complains about lost leaves. Just as Neo thinks he might
be able to rescue his would-be new friend the blue balloon, the
sturdy tree becomes a dangerous obstacle. Neo is in trouble. He'll
hurt himself if someone doesn't come to his rescue-and to the
rescue of his special balloon. Who will save him? Well, a friend,
of course, because that's what real friends are all about!
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