Cutting through the Silence

A Sociological Construction of Self-Injury

Dados Bibliográficos

ID2274684
AutoresSarah Hodgson (Whittier College, autor correspondente)
Ano2004
Volume74
Fascículo2
Páginas162-179
Data de publicação2004-05-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoSociological Inquiry (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0038-0245 • E-ISSN: 1475-682X
EditoraWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/j.1475-682x.2004.00085.x
OpenAlexW2050351887
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas28
Referências citadas13

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

Aesthetics · Perspective (graphical) · Point (geometry) · Self · Silence · Social science · Sociological imagination · Sociology · Stigma (botany) · Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science · Gun Ownership and Violence Research · Mathematics · Psychology · Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments · Social Psychology · Suicide and Self-Harm Studies