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Ma examines stigma of wearing masks for Chinese students in new study

Oct 23, 2020

Yingyi Ma

Yingyi Ma


"To mask or not to mask amid the COVID-19 pandemic: how Chinese students in America experience and cope with stigma," co-authored by Associate Professor of Sociology Yingyi Ma and sociology Ph.D. candidate Ning Zhan, was published in Chinese Sociological Review. Drawing from stigma theory, Ma and Zhan argue that what Chinese students experience when it comes to mask wearing is an exemplar of how stigma is socially constructed by power. 10/23/20