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Cutting through the Silence: A Sociological Construction of Self‐Injury
Author(s) -
Hodgson Sarah
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
sociological inquiry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.446
H-Index - 51
eISSN - 1475-682X
pISSN - 0038-0245
DOI - 10.1111/j.1475-682x.2004.00085.x
Subject(s) - silence , perspective (graphical) , stigma (botany) , sociology , point (geometry) , sociological imagination , self , social psychology , psychology , computer science , aesthetics , social science , artificial intelligence , mathematics , philosophy , geometry , psychiatry
This project provides a sociological perspective on self‐injury by assessing whether cutting is a learned behavior and whether practitioners use stigma management techniques. In‐depth interviews via e‐mail with self‐reported self‐injurers indicate cutting is learned from the self or from outside sources. Interviewees also discussed the stigma management techniques they use and whether they choose to disclose their behavior. The findings point to a potential increase in learned cutting from outside sources, and the potential for outside sources to help cutters maintain their behavior by providing each other with support.