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111Pithou, Pierre — (1539 1596) jurist Born in Troyes, Pierre Pithou, having abjured Protestantism, joined the political faction and edited the discourse of the Third Estate in La Satire Ménippée (1594), stigmatizing the excesses of the holy league. A student… …
112disability — Loss or lack of functioning, either physical or mental, such as blindness, paralysis, or mental subnormality which, unlike illness, is usually permanent. Disabilities are usually stigmatizing . Moreover, disabled persons often need extra… …
113mental illness — A disputed concept (see for example the entries elsewhere in this dictionary on Laing and anti psychiatry) founded on the everyday contrast between mind and body which, when applied to illness, generates an opposition between two contrasting… …
114problem family — A colloquial and pejorative label used by workers in social agencies and by the public to refer to families whose behaviour or social conditions they deem in some respect problematic. Its generalizing and stigmatizing properties have led to… …
115stigmatize — 1580s, “to brand or tattoo,” from M.L. stigmatizare, from Gk. stigmatizein, from stigmat (see STIGMA (Cf. stigma)). Meaning “to blemish” is from 1610s (figurative), 1630s (literal). Related: Stigmatized; stigmatizing …
116stigmatize — [[t]stɪ̱gmətaɪz[/t]] stigmatizes, stigmatizing, stigmatized VERB If someone or something is stigmatized, they are unfairly regarded by many people as being bad or having something to be ashamed of. [be V ed] Children in single parent families… …
117branding — n. act of burning with a hot iron; act of stigmatizing, act of marking with disgrace brænd n. product manufactured by a company and given a specific name or mark, trademark; kind, type, variety; mark made by burning; mark of disgrace; hot iron… …
118Antipsychiatry movement — Early in the 1960s, as part of the general intellectual tumult of the time, a protest movement arose against psychiatry. Members of the movement were by no means all in agreement about doctrine; some argued that there was no such thing as… …
119social welfare — ‘Social welfare’ is sometimes a synonym for welfare state, but here it is taken to refer to ideas about what the objectives of a welfare state are and by what mechanisms and processes they might best be achieved. The principle of less… …
120welfare state — By 1950, it was unremarkable to describe Britain as a ‘welfare state’. Mostly this term referred to the new legislation to promote social welfare, but sometimes it stood for a more general view of social and political culture. References could …
