Stigmatize vs Marginalize - What's the difference?
stigmatize | marginalize |
To characterize as disgraceful or ignominious; to mark with a stigma or stigmata.
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* 2010 , Mark McClelland, "The 'Beautiful Boy' in Japanese Girls' Manga", in Manga: An Anthology of Global and Cultural Perspectives (ed. Toni Johnson-Woods), The Continuum International Publishing Group Inc (2010), ISBN 9780826429377,
* 2012 , Daphne C. Watkins & Harold W. Neighbors, "Social Determinants of Depression and the Black Male Experience", in Social Determinants of Health Among African-American Men (eds. Henrie M. Treadwell, Clare Xanthos, & Kisha B. Holden), Jossey-Bass (2013), ISBN 9780470931103,
To relegate (something, especially a topic or a group of people,) to the margins or to a lower limit
In transitive terms the difference between stigmatize and marginalize
is that stigmatize is to characterize as disgraceful or ignominious; to mark with a stigma or stigmata while marginalize is to relegate (something, especially a topic or a group of people,) to the margins or to a lower limit.stigmatize
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Alternative forms
* (UK) stigmatiseVerb
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- Helen Hardacre, in her study of discourses stigmatizing women who have had abortions, argues that there has been a marked rise in media interest in women's sexuality since the 1970s.
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- This chapter examines the social determinants of depression in black men because no other race-by-gender population group has been stigmatized as much as black men.