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My secret: The social meaning of HIV/AIDS stigma
This study uses Goffman's [1963. Stigma: Notes on the Management of Spoiled Identity, New Jersey, Prentice-Hall] theory of stigma as an intellectual scaffold to help understand the social meaning of HIV/AIDS stigma from People Living with HIV/AIDS. The study adopts a qualitative approach becaus...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4272192/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24980478 http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17290376.2014.932302 |
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description | This study uses Goffman's [1963. Stigma: Notes on the Management of Spoiled Identity, New Jersey, Prentice-Hall] theory of stigma as an intellectual scaffold to help understand the social meaning of HIV/AIDS stigma from People Living with HIV/AIDS. The study adopts a qualitative approach because of its appropriateness for unravelling subjective phenomena such as the experiences of HIV/AIDS stigma. In-depth interviews were conducted with 10 HIV-positive employees of a retailing company located in the Western Cape province of South Africa who volunteered to participate in the study. The participants with the discreditable stigma internalised society's prejudice towards those living with the virus. As a result, the participants relied on self-isolation and social withdrawal to cope with enacted stigma. Managing information about one's status and deciding whether, who, when, etc., to tell are crucial questions. The participants feared being devalued by family, friends, co-workers and the community. In concurrence with Goffman [1963. Stigma: Notes on the Management of Spoiled Identity, New Jersey, Prentice-Hall] the HIV/AIDS stigma is seen as about relationships. |
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spelling | pubmed-42721922014-12-24 My secret: The social meaning of HIV/AIDS stigma Judgeo, N. Moalusi, K.P. SAHARA J Special topic on: Stigma This study uses Goffman's [1963. Stigma: Notes on the Management of Spoiled Identity, New Jersey, Prentice-Hall] theory of stigma as an intellectual scaffold to help understand the social meaning of HIV/AIDS stigma from People Living with HIV/AIDS. The study adopts a qualitative approach because of its appropriateness for unravelling subjective phenomena such as the experiences of HIV/AIDS stigma. In-depth interviews were conducted with 10 HIV-positive employees of a retailing company located in the Western Cape province of South Africa who volunteered to participate in the study. The participants with the discreditable stigma internalised society's prejudice towards those living with the virus. As a result, the participants relied on self-isolation and social withdrawal to cope with enacted stigma. Managing information about one's status and deciding whether, who, when, etc., to tell are crucial questions. The participants feared being devalued by family, friends, co-workers and the community. In concurrence with Goffman [1963. Stigma: Notes on the Management of Spoiled Identity, New Jersey, Prentice-Hall] the HIV/AIDS stigma is seen as about relationships. Routledge 2014-01-02 2014-07-01 /pmc/articles/PMC4272192/ /pubmed/24980478 http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17290376.2014.932302 Text en © 2014 The Author(s). Published by Taylor & Francis. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. The moral rights of the named author(s) have been asserted. |
spellingShingle | Special topic on: Stigma Judgeo, N. Moalusi, K.P. My secret: The social meaning of HIV/AIDS stigma |
title | My secret: The social meaning of HIV/AIDS stigma |
title_full | My secret: The social meaning of HIV/AIDS stigma |
title_fullStr | My secret: The social meaning of HIV/AIDS stigma |
title_full_unstemmed | My secret: The social meaning of HIV/AIDS stigma |
title_short | My secret: The social meaning of HIV/AIDS stigma |
title_sort | my secret: the social meaning of hiv/aids stigma |
topic | Special topic on: Stigma |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4272192/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24980478 http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17290376.2014.932302 |
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