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This topic has appeared in the English Wikipedia rankings 1 time. It first appeared on 2026-07-23 and was most recently seen on 2026-07-23.
Social death, sometimes referred to as social suicide, is an extreme social rejection or disenfranchisement of someone by the wider society. It refers to when the targeted people are treated as if they are dead or non-existent. It is used by sociologists such as Orlando Patterson and Zygmunt Bauman, and historians of slavery and the Holocaust, to describe the part played by governmental and social segregation in that process. Social death is defined by "three aspects: a loss of social identity, a loss of social connectedness and losses associated with disintegration of the body."
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