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• Social stigma — is severe social disapproval of personal characteristics or beliefs that are against cultural norms. Social stigma often leads to marginalization.Examples of existing or historical social stigmas can be physical or mental disabilities, disorders… …   Wikipedia

• social stigma — Общая лексика: социальная стигматизация, социальная язва …   Универсальный англо-русский словарь

• Stigma — (plural: stigmata) may refer to:In biology:* Stigma (anatomy), a small spot, mark, scar, or minute hole * In a flower , the stigma is the terminal portion of the gynoecium that has no epidermis and is meant to receive pollen. * The eyespot… …   Wikipedia

• Social death — is a term used to describe the condition of people not accepted as fully human by wider society. Used by sociologists like Zygmunt Bauman and historians of the holocaust to describe the part played governmental and social segregation in that… …   Wikipedia

• Social work with groups — Social Work with GroupsThe group process contains the secret of collective life, it is the key to democracy, it is the master lesson for every individual to learn, it is our chief hope for the political, the social, the international life of the… …   Wikipedia

• Stigma (sociological theory) — In sociological theory, a stigma is an attribute, behavior, or reputation which is socially discrediting in a particular way: it causes an individual to be mentally classified by others in an undesirable, rejected stereotype rather than in an… …   Wikipedia

• social security — 1. (usually caps.) a program of old age, unemployment, health, disability, and survivors insurance maintained by the U.S. federal government through compulsory payments by specific employer and employee groups. 2. the theory or practice of… …   Universalium

• Social Dancing — Infobox Album | Name = Social Dancing Type = Album Artist = Bis Released = 22 March, 1999 Recorded = Apollo Studios, Glasgow, Scotland Genre = Britpop Length = 42:30 Label = Wiiija Producer = Andy Gill Reviews = * Allmusic Rating|4|5… …   Wikipedia

• Social actions — In sociology, social actions refer to any action that takes into account the actions and reactions of other individuals and is modified based on those events. Social action is a concept developed by Max Weber that explores interaction between… …   Wikipedia

• social insurance — any of various forms of insurance in which a government is an insurer, esp. such insurance that provides assistance to disabled or unemployed workers and to aged persons. [1915 20] * * * Compulsory public insurance program that protects against… …   Universalium