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What is Social Stigma

Infocommunication Skills as a Rehabilitation and Social Reintegration Tool for Inmates
It happens when society labels a group, generalizing a series of characteristics, always negative, that will lead them to a state of danger of social exclusion.
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Communication Media and Digital Literacy as Intervention Tools in Prisons: The Case in Spain
Paloma Contreras-Pulido (University of Huelva, Spain) and Ignacio Aguaded (University of Huelva, Spain)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-5975-7.ch005
Abstract
In Spain, there are a few projects that link communication with social intervention in prisons. These projects have remained invisible to society, and similar initiatives taking place in other prisons were even unknown amongst themselves. It is not common to find radio, programs of digital literacy, magazines, or even television and cinema in prisons. These are activities that remain within the walls and come about from the restlessness of the educators who voluntarily produce them. The work presented comes about the doctoral research work that for 4 years explored these initiatives. Through qualitative methodology, based on the use of in-depth interviews, the authors give voice to 20 prisoners and educators that participate in these projects in Spanish jails. Without claiming to be representative, the results show that these activities can become a powerful tool for social-educative integration and personal transformation.
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DACA-Mexico Origin Students in the United States-Mexican Borderlands: Persistence, Belonging, and College Climate
When a stranger is introduced, these attributes become expectations and demands that subconsciously lead to assumptions regarding how the society feels the stranger should be or act. If the stranger behaves differently or exhibits attributes that are undesirable in the extreme sense, then the society perceives the individual as threatening, inferior, or bad ( Goffman, 1963 ). These types of discrediting attributes are called stigmas.
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