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The children had to deal with the heartbreak of ostracism and ridicule.
Bankrupts often have to face the ostracism of their friends.
Converts to other religions continue to experience social ostracism.

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Examples of ostracism

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Just as ostracism can slow economic growth, demands for methodological "correctness" can slow scientific progress.
Although leaving the community brought no formal sanctions against the individual, informal social sanctions like ostracism or refused re-admittance were possibilities.
Thus, a trade union might offer discounts on holidays to its members, and threaten non-members with ostracism.
The interviewees did not identify these incidents as outright or blatant rudeness, ostracism or deliberate mistreatment.
Faced with ostracism in the workplace, restaurants and public buildings, smokers might decide to abandon cigarettes.
Apart from guild-related religious exclusions, illegitimates suffered from individual religious ostracism.
Furthermore, 'a few clients suffered severe ostracism by their families when they found out'.
Fans undergo a high degree of social ostracism from those who do not support their interest.
In discussing their experiences, all women indicated incidences of ostracism, disapproval and ill-treatment of one sort or another and from at least one other person.
Neither formal rules nor informal sanctions such as social ostracism or socially defined gender roles should hinder participation.
Steps such as ostracism, boycotts, loss of employment, and public denunciation could be used against those who broke the law, as could a variety of self-help measures, such as vendettas.
It acts as a protection against racism and social ostracism but also gives sense and value to a life by facilitating differing forms of cultural expression and social engagement.
Statements about one's reliability increase the cost of cheating, since later violation of the commitment brings down more ostracism and punishment - a second and independent violation of a norm.
Rather, the pathologies of a rent-based political economy, political ostracism and the social marginalisation of wide parts of the populace have caused political and economic power to fracture.
Not only was social ostracism inevitable, but couples seeking to self-arrange marriages were forced to renounce any legal claims to membership of their respective religious faiths.
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