Thanks. I know Rachel's work well but the Alonso is new.

I am also interested in developing more on stigma theory.

I am studying how innercity residents in a food deprived area fight back. Grocery providers do not want to locate stores in their neighborhoods because of urban blight and violence. They are stigmatized because of their poverty and their inability to move anywhere else. I am developing a model of felt and enacted stigma and the responses to being stigmatized. I collected data from nearly 600 innercity residents in December at a food bank distribution event. It was an eye opening research experience. Advice is welcome.

There was a special edition on structural stigma and population health in:

Social Science & Medicine 103 (2014)

It was edited by Hatzenbuehler & Link, so it is a bit weighted towards mental illness but the articles do cover a wider range of subject areas - with a focus on structural stigma.

Thank you, Matt!  I've seen that and I'm in the process of reading the issue right now.  I am particularly interested in how stigma is measured in psychometric empirical studies.  Any suggestions?

Hi Mary, my own area is stigma and mental illness, and tools to measure stigma and self-stigmatisation in this area tend to be specific to the area.  The Institute of Psychiatry (and groups based around them) have done a lot of work in this area over the last few years.  Here's a link to their work on the validation of psychometric tools to measure different components of stigma, but I think it's more subject specific than you are looking for:

 http://www.sapphire.iop.kcl.ac.uk/SAPPHIRE%20Measures.html

All the best.

thanks!

Hello Mary,

In regards to psychometric tools, Dr. Pat Corrigan has a lot of good resources that you may be able to derive some ideas from, including this "toolkit" of stigma measurements: http://www.scattergoodfoundation.org/sites/default/files/Evaluation%20Toolkit__Corrigan.pdf

The Iowa Stigma group may also help in regards to measures of help-seeking and self-stigma: https://selfstigma.psych.iastate.edu/

Both are geared toward mental health stigma, but could be adapted.

Joe

Interesting question Mary,

i research weight stigma in healthcare and have some resources on this on my profile which could be used for teaching if this is of any help? Not sure if this is relevant for your specific topic though. 

All the the best with it

jenny

I will check these out and thanks!

MJB

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Thanks Satyajeet!

I would like to contribute to your workshop, I have been working on stigma theoretical aspects for last 6 years (2008 onwards). I am in the process of working out a holistic model of stigma taking care of individual, institutional and community level factors. It would be great to collaborate if possible.

Perhaps.  I would like to hear more.

MJB

Dear Mary,

here are inspirational publications:

http://news.stanford.edu/news/2015/march/moral-stigma-organizations-032715.html

http://www.lancaster.ac.uk/news/blogs/imogen-tyler/rethinking-the-sociology-of-stigma/

gender and stigma:

http://www.glasgowsociology.com/professional-triumph-personal-failure-stigma-and-the-single-career-woman/

good luck with your research

a,

Thanks :)

                    CAS 892 – Stigma Communication, Fall Semester 2015

                   (meets Tuesday morning from 9:10-12:00 in 177 Com Arts)

Taught by Professor Mary Bresnahan    Email: [email protected]

 Bresnahan’s recent publications on Stigma:

Anderson, J., Bresnahan, M., & Musatics, C. (2014). Combating Weight-Based Cyberbullying on Facebook with the Dissenter Effect. Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking, 17, 281-286.

Bresnahan, M. J., Silk, K., & Zhuang, J.  (2013). You did this to yourself! Stigma associated with lung cancer.  Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 43, 1-30.

Anderson, J., & Bresnahan, M.  (2012): Communicating stigma about body size, Health  Communication, 28, 1-13. doi:10.1080/10410236.2012.706792

Zhuang, J., & Bresnahan, M.J.  (2012). HIV/AIDS stigmatization on Chinese Internet discussion forums:   Content analysis approach to HIV/AIDS stigma. Chinese Journal of Communication, 5, 227-242.

Bresnahan, M. I., & Zhuang, J. (2010). Towards a theory of stigma.  Journal of Health Psychology, 15, 231-             243. doi:10.1348/135910709X457946.

Goal of Course

Increasingly, scholars in a number of disciplines (Communication, Social Psychology, Sociology, Anthropology, Health, & Medicine) have focused on understanding the process of stigma from the dual perspectives of stigmatizers and the stigmatized. Stigma research has taken on a special status apart from stereotyping and prejudice studies.  The goal of this seminar on stigma is to explore theory, measurement and experience of stigma from multiple perspectives.  The following course announcement includes a list of topics that will be covered.

Final Project

The final assignment (due date) will be a 12-15 page (double-spaced, 12 pt. font) grant proposal. You should treat this project like an NIH predoctoral fellowship application (although the literature review will be somewhat longer and the study descriptions will be more detailed for this project).  In this empirical proposal, you will select a stigma research topic and develop theory-driven novel research hypotheses. You will then propose at least one empirical study to test your hypotheses. You will both present this proposal to the class and then turn in the final paper during exam week. More guidelines will be available.

Tentative Topics that will be covered in this Seminar

Week 1: What is stigma?

Week 2: Approaches & Dimensions of stigma, Communication of Stigma

Week 3: Measurement of Stigma

Week 4: What causes people to stigmatize?         

Week 5: Stigma as power differential

Week 6: Consequences of Stigma

Week 7: Hidden Stigmatized Conditions: Whether to conceal or reveal?

Week 8: Stigma by Association

Week 9: Stigma and Health, HBV Stigma, Infertility Stigma

Week 10: Stigma and Bullying

Week 11: Rejection Sensitivity

Week 12: Fighting back:  Reclaiming stigmatized identity, Overcoming Stigma

Week 13: Obesity Stigma

Week 14: Environmental Stigma

Week 15: Presentation of student research proposals to class

 Here's my recent paper on the topic Mary.  Eliciting Acceptance for "Illicity Organizations: The Positive Implications of Stigma for MMA Organizations.

It deals with labels and the use of devaluing labels.

Article Eliciting Acceptance For "Illicit" Organizations: The Positi...

Thanks for this suggestion!