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Example sentences for: stigma

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Stigma is part of the attitudes and social structures that set people against each other.
People living with HIV/AIDS (PLWA) face many forms of stigma and discrimination.
In AA, though, the anonymity--well, semi-anonymity--is due to the social stigma of alcoholism.
Certainly since Erving Goffman's seminal work on stigma in the early 1960s, stigma (plural stigmata) has been recognized as “an attribute that is significantly discrediting,” and it is known as a potent and painful force in individual lives [15].
And while only a few unmarried mothers once kept their babies, only a few put them up for adoption today, because the stigma of unwed motherhood has declined.