СТИГМА В’ЯЗНИЦЕЮ ЯК СОЦІАЛЬНО-КОМУНІКАТИВНИЙ БАР’ЄР У МІЖОСОБИСТІСНІЙ ВЗАЄМОДІЇ

Abstract

Urgency of the research. Despite the current changes in the penitentiary system of many countries, it is stated that prison leaves the rule unchanged - one who at least once has entered its space by a court judgment forever becomes a participant in the game called "stigma", the rules of which acquire the force of "law" by changing the behavior of people, their rationality, interaction and communication with others. Target setting. Although the fact that a person must permanently communicate the modern social space at the level of individual social groups, demonstrates an increasing tendency to social exclusion through stigmatizing those who are somewhat different from the dominant group. Actual scientific researches and issues analysis. Nowadays, a communication line in which discourse is presented in publications by P. Bourdieu, J. Habermas, H. Kravchenkova, H. Svistunova is considered to be an accomplished approach to study stigma and stigmatization. Uninvestigated parts of general matters defining. Hampering communication in the situation which allows an interaction is a detector of placing barriers for some individuals. This perspective of assessing the cases of removal from the social space of certain groups of people is one of the factors that encourage scientists to turn to the analysis of the phenomenon of stigma as reasons for exclusion. The research objective. The research aims to reveal the phenomenon of "stigma of prison" as the reason to set up social and communicative barriers to interpersonal interaction with an individual who has in the life stage of was behind bars. The statement of basic materials. Social space always categorizes people and is based on correlation with the selected criteria sets barriers for those who do not meet the criteria of the rule. People who have their own history of imprisonment are the ones who are perceived as threatening and therefore exposed to stigma. The stigma of prison, in its turn, becomes a social and communicative barrier, which task is to prevent the development of communication in a situation of interpersonal contact. Conclusions. The stigma of prison causes placing social and communicative barriers to interpersonal interaction with an individual who has discharged the term of sentence at penal institution. The factor of such stigma is the fear of the Other, which, due to the influence of social stereotypes and prejudices, is perceived as a threat and danger.