Stigmatization: A subject of Seven Statues

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Stigmatization

Abstract

In reference to Man’s divergent lifestyle, the aspect of social-stigmatization has gained subsequent influence in the contemporary mind of a common philosopher. This speculation specifies that, man may not be subject to racial, gender or classist dogmatization. Based on this approach, the commencing research will appoint Rosenblum and Travis (2003) arguments in relation to the subject being pursued by this research. The study will attempt to prove that; stigmatization can be extinguished if the society adopts liberal ideologies of equality. Further to this, the study will assess in detail the seven statues speculated by Rosenblum and Travis.

Explain the meaning of stigma.

According to Rosenblum and Travis (2003), stigmatization, is a comprehensive agenda that affect the stigmatized person and the initiator of the stigma doctrine. A stigmatized person is one who socially identifies with members to a given social category. This calls for the question of his or her full humanity. The stigmatized person naturally feels devalued, flawed and spoiled in his eyes and others. From a critical perspective, the stigma is applied to enroll a social culture of aversion, threat and dehumanization and sometimes depersonalization of other and eventually leads to the development of stereotypic caricatures. Thus, in reference to the book, stigmatization is interpersonal, social and personal systems, which are costly.

Statutes of Stigmatized status

Race

Rosenblum and Travis as one of the controversial theories of the aggregate social theory have established race as a crucial aspect of stigmatization. In fact, a significant feature in the race theory values the experiences of oppressed groups as those suggestive in a methodology to create an opposition of consciousness that happens to be a dominant ideology. In relation to racism, one will notice the complex terminology associated with income, wealth, and social mobility. In any case, it is difficult to define a given terminology related to race since after all the consent of class will emerge with more accurate reflection on social and economic factors of an individual merits.

Sex

Rosenblum and Travis have defined sexual orientation as master of statuses has been established as a conveyance of prestige. In social science literature, it is necessary to assess the extent at which sexuality occupies an individual cognitive ability. In the debate of sexuality, master of statuses is those, which in most and all situations overpowers and dominate other statuses. In fact, individuals construct their identities by giving a higher priority to one individual’s statues over another by using sex as a common modifier. A close example is a political campaign between a Man from a minor race, against a woman from a major race. The electorate will naturally vote for the Man.

Gender

Another controversial point of stigmatization is the gender. In fact, gender forms a basic fabric of the social theory, which prompts a group of experiences and challenges, created to foster methodologies of ensuring a standpoint will lead to a group knowledge and standpoint that are essential to a given social situation. According to Rosenblum and Travis gender, is a complex analysis that focuses on the critical orientation of class and gender to analyze the impact of a given society? In fact, gender is a social construction, which refers to hormonal, physiological, and chromosomal that defines differences between males and females.

Social Class

Similarly, social class forms the fabric of a given society. Social class focuses in revealing the ignored realities of the class positions. In American society, the debate of Social Class remains a contentious subject in the American culture. Rosenblum and Travis (2003) argue that the social class is a seldom-discussed subject and its vocabulary seeks to examine the significance evasive nature of social class in American society. Consequently, the inability to understand the social impact of social class is a crucial factor that sociologists should examine consequently.

Ethnicity

In response to the ethnicity stance, Rosenblum and Travis (2003) argues that despite the coexistence of oppression and privilege within any person, stigma is strong and pervasive in the society and oppression can extinguish privileges of one status. In any case, the presence of a given situation will naturally delegitimize an intersection of ethnicity.

Social Disability

Rosenblum and Travis (2003) argue that the continuous transcription social disability has with time evolved to given sense of social identity. Further to this, members are prescribed in a dominant sense of social identity. In other words, the degrees, of gradations and variation within the social group will naturally vary based on the nature of transcription.

Perceptions and Group

In response to the social principles constructed by Rosenblum and Travis (2003), there are several social constructs that individuals groups are inclined to. From the readings, one will notice the optimal preoccupation of ethnicity and gender status. Consequently, there is a collective analysis of chances of equality in the society. Rosenblum and Travis (2003) further argue that despite the collective coexistence of both oppression and privilege within the oppression and given individual. As part of the evolutionary theory, group perception; for instance, health, economic and inequality will access that the man is inclined to a given set of disciplines, which are irrevocable. Based on this, there are emerging factors related to the intersections of class, gender and ethnicity.

Essentialist Perspective

Primarily, the social constructionist perspectives are contrasted with an essentialist perspective that is inherent in social ideologies. Essentialism assumes that there are categories of all members of a given category that human beings tend to share. Man acts on a given social fabric, which is not subject to instigations of a given class or society. This report elects the essentialist perspective, based on its role of fabricating a given society. In this case, it should be noted that social constructionist agenda could not be separated from a culture that attempts to ignore a given consequence of social thesis. By far large, social differences can only be applied to explain the differences between people and not the concepts of classism, sexism, gender or ethnicity.

References

Rosenblum, K. E. (2003). The meaning of difference: American constructions of race, sex and

gender, social class, and sexual orientation : a text/reader (3rd ed.). Boston, Mass.: McGraw-Hill.