What cultural experiences reinforce the stigma they endure

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Please provide detailed responses. The purpose of this assignment is for you to explore your own personal conceptualizations and understandings of stigma and prejudice you hold/held toward a specific group after going through this course. For example, some stigmatized groups we discussed include transgender individuals and those with extreme body modifications. This assignment is intended to serve as a space to encourage you to actively think about how you have/had stigmatized a specific group and how/why your perspectives have changed (or have not) after taking this class (course: Sociology of Deviance). It is an individual and personal exercise to help you develop an awareness of your own thoughts or feelings about a stigmatized group. Please reflect on the prompts below.

1. Feelings prior to this course about a specific stigmatized group and where they came from/how I learned to stigmatize this group and what cultural experiences reinforce the stigma they endure.

2. Feelings at the end of this course about a specific stigmatized group and how they changed after taking this course and what cultural norms need to be challenged to continue to combat the stigma they endure.

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