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"A compassionate and eye-opening examination of evolving attitudes toward mental illness throughout history and the fight to end the stigma. For centuries, scientists and society cast moral judgments on anyone deemed mentally ill, confining many to asylums. In Nobody's Normal, anthropologist Roy Richard Grinker chronicles the progress and setbacks in the struggle against mental-illness stigma-from the eighteenth century, through America's major wars, and into today's high-tech economy. Grinker infuses the book with the personal history of his family's four generations of involvement in psychiatry, including his grandfather's analysis with Sigmund Freud, his own daughter's experience with autism, and culminating in his research on neurodiversity. Drawing on cutting-edge science, historical archives, and cross-cultural research in Africa and Asia, Nobody's Normal explains how we are transforming mental illness and offers a path to end the shadow of stigma. The preeminent historian of medicine, Sander Gilman, calls Nobody's Normal "the most important work on stigma in more than half a century.""--

Mental illness --- Mentally ill --- Stereotypes (Social psychology)

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The manifestation of stigma and those who are stigmatised differs over time and place. In this Social Science Bites podcast, Michèle Lamont introduces us to stigma as the 'negative characterisation of any social attribute'. She asks how certain attributes, such as mental health, lower-socioeconomic labour and obesity come to be viewed as negative characteristics and discusses how researchers can go about studying the phenomena.Lamont uses the example of contact theory to discuss stigma; that is, if there's an increased interaction between individuals who belong to different groups, they develop a greater understanding of those other groups and how they function, which may counteract stereotypes.During the discussion, Lamont and David Edmonds discuss her work with colleagues in the United States, Brazil and Israel, where they conducted more than 400 ethnographic, insider researcher interviews to examine and establish patterns on how those who are stigmatised experience, receive and respond to racism and discrimination. They also questioned how these experiences can differ, both across these cultures and by gender.Lamont and Edmonds also discuss how culture impacted the ways in which the researchers approached the interviews and the obstacles they had to overcome to conduct the research. For example, participants in the United States for Lamont's research were compensated $20 to be interviewed; however, the research team was advised that those in Brazil would have perceived payment to be insulting. They therefore needed to acknowledge that the meaning of money across countries will also differ. Lamont further introduces the phenomena of self-stigma, where people wish to differentiate themselves from others in the group, creating intergroup boundaries.

Stigma (Social psychology) --- Stereotypes (Social psychology)

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Were men the only hunters and producers of tools, art and innovation in prehistory? Were women the only gatherers, home-bound breeders and caregivers? Are all prehistoric female depictions mother goddesses? And do women and men have equal career chances in archaeology? To put it short, no. However, these are some of the gender stereotypes that we still encounter on a daily basis in archaeology from the way archaeologists interpret the past and present it to the general public to how they practice it as a profession. This booklet is as a short but informative and critical response by archaeologists to various gender stereotypes that exist in the archaeological explanation of the past, as well as in the contemporary disciplinary practice. Gender and feminist archaeologists have fought for decades against gender stereotypes through academic writing, museum exhibitions and popular literature, among others. Despite their efforts, many of these stereotypes continue to live and even flourish, both in academic and non-academic settings, especially in countries where gender archaeology does not exist or where gender in archaeology is barely discussed. Given this context and the rise of far right or ultraconservative ideologies and beliefs across the globe, this booklet is a timely and thought-provoking contribution that openly addresses often uncomfortable topics concerning gender in archaeology, in an attempt to raise awareness both among the professionals and others interested in the discipline. The booklet includes 24 commonly encountered gender stereotypes in archaeology, explained and deconstructed in 250 words by archaeologists with expertise on gender in the past and in contemporary archaeology, most of them being members of the Archaeology and Gender in Europe (AGE) Community of the European Association of Archaeologists. In addition, the stereotypes are illustrated by Serbian award-winning artist Nikola Radosavljevic.

Social archaeology --- Sex differences --- Stereotypes (Social psychology) --- History.

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"Les notions de stéréotype, cliché, poncif, lieu commun, idée reçue, permettent d'étudier les interactions sociales, la relation des discours aux imaginaires sociaux et, plus largement, le rapport entre langage et société. Pourquoi la question des évidences partagées, des représentations collectives, des automatismes de langage se trouve-t-elle au centre des réflexions contemporaines ? Dans quelle mesure les perspectives d'analyse des sciences sociales, des études littéraires et des sciences du langage peuvent-elles se recouper? Après avoir établi l'histoire des notions, le présent ouvrage montre comment le phénomène de la stéréotypie a été abordé par différentes disciplines : psychologie sociale, stylistique, sociocritique et théories de la lecture, sémantique, rhétorique et analyse du discours. Cette nouvelle édition a été entièrement mise à jour et enrichie de nombreuses notions telles que le prédiscours ou les discours médiatiques et politiques."--Quatrième de couverture.

Clichés in literature. --- Discourse analysis --- Social representations. --- Sociolinguistics. --- Stereotypes (Social psychology) in literature. --- Stereotypes (Social psychology) in mass media. --- Social aspects.

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This volume traces the history of antisemitism from antiquity through contemporary manifestations of the discrimination of Jews. It documents the religious, sociological, political and economic contexts in which antisemitism thrived and thrives and shows how such circumstances served as support and reinforcement for a curtailment of the Jews' social status. The volume sheds light on historical processes of discrimination and identifies them as a key factor in the contemporary and future fight against antisemitism.

HISTORY / Jewish. --- Anti-Semitism. --- anti-Judaism, anti-Jewish stereotypes. --- strategies against anti-Semitism.