Attitudes towards diversity. Discrimination and stigma in students of mexican social work

Abstract

Socially certain traits or attributes are structurally devalued and generate processes in which it is ranked lower than those who are labeled under those characteristics. Thus generating processes of violation of Human Rights, discrimination and social exclusion that are produced and reproduced by society and its structures. Starting from the Mexican discrimination surveys ENADIS, a Likert scale is constructed to measure the degree of discomfort towards various stigmas and it is proposed to identify the reasons for the respective attitudes. For this, 375 Mexican students of Social Work have been taken into account. The results show that sexuality and issues derived from nationality and ethnicity are the most susceptible to stigma. Likewise, it is evident that the fact of knowing people with these characteristics, the sex and the formative level are determinant.