Lucas Jeffrey W, Phelan Jo C
University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA.
Columbia University, New York, NY, USA.
Soc Psychol Q. 2012 Dec;75(4):310-333. doi: 10.1177/0190272512459968.
This article explicates and distinguishes the processes that produce status orders and those that produce stigmatization. It describes an experimental study in which participants were assigned interaction partners before completing a task where they had opportunities to be influenced by the partners and opportunities to socially reject the partners. Results show clear influence effects of educational attainment and mental illness but no effects for physical disability. Social distance effects are present for mental illness and physical disability but not for educational attainment. Results additionally show that stigmatizing attributes combine with task ability in affecting influence and also suggest that task ability may reduce social rejection. These results indicate that stigmatizing attributes combine with status markers in a way similar to previously studied status attributes. The findings extend traditions of research on status and stigma while also having potentially important implications for strategies to reduce inequalities based on mental illness.
本文阐述并区分了产生地位秩序的过程和产生污名化的过程。它描述了一项实验研究，在该研究中，参与者在完成一项任务之前被分配了互动伙伴，在这项任务中，他们有机会受到伙伴的影响，也有机会在社交上排斥伙伴。结果显示了教育程度和精神疾病有明显的影响效应，但身体残疾则没有影响。精神疾病和身体残疾存在社会距离效应，但教育程度则不存在。结果还表明，污名化属性与任务能力在影响影响力方面相互结合，并且还表明任务能力可能会减少社会排斥。这些结果表明，污名化属性与地位标志的结合方式与先前研究的地位属性相似。这些发现扩展了关于地位和污名的研究传统，同时也对基于精神疾病减少不平等的策略具有潜在的重要意义。
