3513 - Reducing Stigma: Broadening our Approaches to Interventions (Sponsored by the National Institutes of Health)

Session Submission Type: Invited Session

Description

Sociologists have a long history in studying stigma, its origins and its consequences. Despite this large body of substantive, methodological, and empirical work, psychologists have been more prominent in developing and testing individual means to resist, cope, and reduce the effects of stigma. This panel calls together four prominent sociologists to share their ideas about stigma that can be used in social, structural or policy interventions. Each person brings different perspectives and frameworks and we expect these presentations to help lead to a sociological research agenda about interventions that can reduce stigma and its consequences on groups and people.

Sub Unit

• Special Sessions

Session Organizers

• Michèle Lamont, Harvard University

• Shobha Srinivasan, National Cancer Institute

Presider

• Tomasso Vitale, Sciences Po

Individual Presentations

• Status, Worth, Boundary Work, Stigmatization and Racialization: Reimagining Ways to Reduce Stigma from Intervention to Cultural Engineering - Michèle Lamont, Harvard University

• Being Out of Place and Stigmatization: The Case of Homelessness across Four Global Cities - David A. Snow, University of California-Irvine

• Coming Out as a Destigmatizing Strategy - Abigail C. Saguy, University of California-Los Angeles

• Can We Change What We Describe? A School-based Intervention Designed to Reduce Stigma and Promote Well-being - Bruce G. Link, University of California-Riverside

Discussant

• Tomasso Vitale, Sciences Po