Syllabus 2023
ANTH/SOCY 2410: "Stigma" Fall 2023 Viewing Stigma Through Popular Culture Contact Information: Office: 224g AC Campus Required Meetings: T/TH 12:30-2:30 Email: laurie.greene@stockton.edu (please include course name in subject line) Office Hours: by T/TH 2:30-3:30 or by appointment on ZOOM or in person. TEXT me for an appointment at 609.214.6596 (cell) Room: Ac Campus 311 Handing in work: You will be required to hand in your work via PACKBACK “Stigma”: Culture and Marked Identity in the United States Cultural value systems in every society rely on sets of mutually defining terms -- for example, normal/abnormal, able-bodied/disabled, heterosexual/homosexual, white/non-white -- that largely determine local attitudes of acceptance or ostracism regarding particular categories of persons. Focusing on social stigma allows us to understand how specific cultural value systems affect our most intimate senses of self, contribute to our very notions of pers...