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  2. Why Labeling Some People as 'Gifted' Actually Hurts Us All - AOL

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    Yet, in effect, this is exactly what we do when we label some as “gifted”—a common practice not only in today’s educational system, but also in our family systems and beyond.

  3. Social stigma - Wikipedia

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    Stigma may also be described as a label that associates a person to a set of unwanted characteristics that form a stereotype. It is also affixed. [3] Once people identify and label one's differences, others will assume that is just how things are and the person will remain stigmatized until the stigmatizing attribute is undetectable.

  4. Labeling theory - Wikipedia

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    Here, people vary along different dimensions, and everyone falls at different points on each dimension. Proponents of hard labeling, as opposed to soft labeling, believe that mental illness does not exist, but is merely deviance from norms of the social order, causing people to believe in mental illness. They view them as socially constructed ...

  5. Labelling - Wikipedia

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    Labelling or using a label is describing someone or something in a word or short phrase. [1] For example, the label "criminal" may be used to describe someone who has broken a law. Labelling theory is a theory in sociology which ascribes labelling of people to control and identification of deviant behaviour.

  6. 7 Reasons Why Labeling Black Women As 'Aggressive' Is Lazy - AOL

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    A few years ago, I was in a fitness group with a few women and was the minority in that group.

  7. Label (sociology) - Wikipedia

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    A label is an abstract concept in sociology used to group people together based on perceived or held identity. Labels are a mode of identifying social groups. Labels can create a sense of community within groups, but they can also cause harm when used to separate individuals and groups from mainstream society. [1]

  8. Peru to stop labeling transgender people as mentally ill - AOL

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    Peru will stop listing individuals who identify as transgender, among others, as suffering from mental disorders, the country's health ministry announced on Tuesday, following a backlash to the ...

  9. Affect labeling - Wikipedia

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    Affect labeling is an implicit emotional regulation strategy that can be simply described as "putting feelings into words". Specifically, it refers to the idea that explicitly labeling one's, typically negative, emotional state results in a reduction of the conscious experience, physiological response, and/or behavior resulting from that emotional state. [1]