The progressive era took 20 years to correct abuses of the Gilded Age. The New Deal struggled for a decade to overcome the Great Depression, and the expansion of economic justice lasted through the 1960s.
Stigma (botany) The stigma (plural: stigmata) is the receptive tip of a carpel, or of several fused carpels, in the gynoecium of a flower.
Cliff Gilley, Studied Sociology (Criminology / Social Psychology) at the UW as an undergrad. Stigma is the process through which social circles ostracize members who violate their mores and standards. One who violates the mores and standards of a social circle is deviant.