ber of a certain 'risk group,' a community of pariahs" (pp. 24-25).
Kaplan (1990) sees this fact as a danger in society, one that has already led to some social movements against the stigmatized group. Kaplan writes that AIDS serves as an impetus and rationale for controlling marginal groups and dangerous behaviors and provides society with the opportunity to expand and rationalize control over a broad range of psychological phenomena and interpersonal behaviors. Social control today involves dispersed centers and agents of surveillance and discipline throughout the whole community (as occurs with workplace drug testing). The control of persons perceived as dangerous is accomplished partly through public psychosocial discourse on AIDS. The reactions evoked by AIDS are determined not only by its biological nature as a disease but also by historically produced meanings attached to sex, health, and disease (pp. 337-351).
The AIDS epidemic has not created these social divisions, but it has exacerbated many of them. It has affected social groups that are not defined in sexual terms as well. Dalton (1989) notes the reaction of the black community to the AIDS epidemic, a community much affected by it and too poor to cope effectively with the pro
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