stigma-consciousness – Dr. Sebastian Lang

28. April 2022

The end of a journey – PhD completed

I am very happy to announce that I successfully defended my PhD. The whole dissertation, including full-texts of the three published papers “Prejudices Against the Unemployed–Empirical Evidence From Germany”, “Zum Stigmabewusstsein Arbeitsloser: Eine Mixed-Methods-Analyse” and “Einflussfaktoren auf das Stigmabewusstsein Arbeitsloser” as well as a working paper version of "Stigma-Consciousness in the Unemployed: A Matter of Neighborhood?", is available for download here (some parts are in German, some are in English). (...)

29. November 2019

Explaining the Stigma Consciousness of the Unemployed

This article examines how the stigma consciousness of the unemployed can be explained. Based on the Labeling Approach, we define unemployment as a status which is deviant from the norm of employment. Following arguments of gender theory, we model a moderating effect of gender regarding both the employment norm and informal social control. (...)

31. Dezember 2018

Stigma Consciousness among Unemployed Individuals: An Analysis Using a Mixed Method Design

This article addresses the question what factors have an impact on specific dimensions of being conscious of the stigma referring to being unemployed (awareness, denial, disaffiliation). We use a Mixed Methods Design which sequentially combines qualitative and quantitative methods. On a theoretical level, Goffman's stigma concept is used as a sensitizing concept to derive the hypotheses from the qualitative interview material. The hypotheses are tested using data from the German panel study ‘Labour Market and Social Security’. (...)