In regards to stigma, popular and scholarly sources are not vastly different in their approaches. Both academic and popular sources provide definitions for the different types of stigma that people experience within society. Popular sources do this from a perspective of the person with mental illness while scholarly sources do this from the perspective of society as a whole. Scholarly sources provide experimentation and statistics, while popular sources generally just provide simple definitions and synthesized versions of longer pieces of work. Because of this, the audience is different for the two types of work, where the scholarly source focuses on the researcher and the activist who is trying to find or change the way society functions in
