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Stigmatization And Alienation Of Unmarried Teenage Mothers In Sub-culture
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1.7 DEFINITION OF TERMS
· ALIENATION: The condition of being estranged or disassociated from the surrounding society.
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DISCRIMINATION: Discrimination is an action, a process in which members
of one or more groups is a form of racism which those discriminated is a
minority. The process of denying opportunities and equal rights to
individuals and groups because of prejudice or other arbitrary reasons.
Cashmor, (1996) defined discrimination as the unfavourable treatment of
all persons socially assigned to a particular category.
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FAMILY: Family is a social group whose members are related by ancestry,
marriage, or adoption and live together, cooperate economically, and
care for the young (Muddock, 1949).
· LABELING: the process
whereby some individuals come to be tagged as deviants, begin to think
of themselves as deviants, and enter deviant careers Howard S. Becker
(1963).
· SOCIETY: A fairly large number of people who live in
the same territory, are relatively independent of people outside it and
participate in a common culture (Lenski et al. 1995).
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STIGMA: A label used to devalue members of deviant social groups. The
phenomenon whereby an individual with an attribute is deeply discredited
by his/her society or rejected as a result of the attribute. It is a
process through which normal identity is influenced negatively by the
reaction of others (Goffman, 1963).
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ABSRACT - [ Total Page(s): 1 ]This study attempts to examine Stigmatization And Alienation Of Unmarried Teenage Mothers In Sub-Culture (Agege Lga Of Lagos State). The study adopted a qualitative approach. While a total of 90 respondents were selected using simple random sampling, the research instrument was a structured questionnaire having both open and closed ended questions. Also, three hypotheses were tested in the course of the study. The finding reveals that Western culture fuels the pressure of unintended teenage preg ... Continue reading---
