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Sociální konstrukce předsudečné typizace lidí s duševním onemocněním

Title in English Social construction of prejudicial typization of people with mental illness
Authors

JANSKÁ Vlasta

Year of publication 2008
Type Article in Periodical
Magazine / Source Sociální práce/Sociálna práca
MU Faculty or unit

Faculty of Social Studies

Citation
Field Psychology
Keywords mental illness; typization; social constructivism; prejudice; stereotype
Description We use categorization to organize and understand the world around us. Those categories can be in some cases changed into stereotypes or prejudices which have important and negative influence on particular group of people or person. Theory of social constructivism is one of the way how we can explain existence and prejudicial typization keeping in the face of people with mental illness.
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