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Flashcards by Victoria Bradley, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Victoria Bradley
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| Question | Answer |
| T or F: Social constructionists suggest that a drviant classification floating around abtractly in society is not meaningful unless it gets attached to people. | True |
| T or F: Grouos in society work to create situaions where deviance occurs and is labeled but does not work to create definitioons of deviance. | False |
| What is secret deviance? | Becoming exposed or to an abstract status coming to bear on their personal experience. |
| What are the seven stagexds of the deviance identity career? | Stage 1: when people are caught and publically identified as deviant Stage 2:When attitudes change towards the person they engage in retrospective interpretation Stage 3: One develops a "spoiled identity" Stage 4: The process of the dynamics of exclusion begins |
| Continued: | Stage 5: Others may welcome or include someone into deviant activities Stage 6: Others treat those defined as deviant differently Stage 7: The "looking glass self" theory |
| What is a master status? | Basically the identity that people already view you as when they meet you. |
| What are auxiliary traits? | The common social preconceptions that people associate master statuses. |
| T or F: The relationship between master statuses and auxiliary traits in society is reciprocal. | True |
| What is primary deviance? | Refers to a stage when people commit deviant acts, but their deviance goes unrecognized. |
| What is secondary deviance? | Individuals deny their deviant lable and eventually come to accept it reluctantly as it becomes increasingly pressed upon them. |
| What is tertiary deviance? | Those who engage in deviance and embrace it. |
| Fact | In order to avoud the negative consequences of being labeled as deviant and to preserve their untarnished indentities, individuals may engage in a variety ot interactional strategies designed to normalize their behavior. |
| What do people commonly make for deviance that ar eseen as valid by the delinquent but not by the legal system or society at large? | Justification |
| What were the 5 listed techniques of neutralization? | 1. Denails or repsonsibility 2. Denying of injury 3. Denial of the victim 4. Appeal to a higher loyalty 5. Condeming the condemners |
| What are excuses? | When peole admit to the wrongfulness of their actions but distance themselves from the blame. |
| What are justifications? | When people accept respsonsibility for their acions but seek to have specific instances excused. |
| The discredite and discreditable | Refer to page 253 |
| What are the two courses that follow disclosure? | Deviance disavowal: the non deviants ignore the others deviance and acts as if it does not exist Deviance avowal: they openly acknowledge their stigma and try to present themselves in a positive light |
| What are different dimensions that groups can be organized in? | Expressive dimension: primary function is to provide Instrumental dimension: members gather together to accomplish the expressive dimension and ot organize the political activism |
| Aspects of conformity | -they adhere to the norms and values of society -accept most conventional views with the occasion exception of their own deviance -use backstage arenas to counsel others |
| Aspects of alientation | -People alienate because they are willing to step outside of conventional means to fight for changed defintions of their single form of deviance |
| Chapter 23: The Adopton and Mangement of a "Fat" Idenity | Goffman suggested that obese people were good for the research since they suffer from a "spoiled identity" |
| Info in the research | Obese people are not only the subject of negative stereotypes but they are also actively discriminated against in college admissions. |
| Info in the research | Obese people are "fat" first and only secondarily are seen as posessing ancillary charactersitics. |
| What two types of data were gathered for the study? | Field observationd and in depth interviews. |
| The idenity change process and the concept of career | Becker refers to "career contigencies": factors on which one position to another depends -they include both the objective facts of social structure and changes in perspectives, motivations, and the desires of the individual |
| What levels is the identity change process viewed. | Public (external) and Private (internal) |
| What is recognizing? | The cognitive process by which an individual becomes aware that a particular status is no longer appropriate. |
| What is placing? | The cognitive process whereby an individual comes to identify an appropriate status from among those available. |
| What is the final phase of the indentity change process? | A new status. |
| Chapter 24: Becoming bisexual | Becoming bisexual involves the rejection of both hetero and homosexuals. |
| What are the stages of bisexuality? | Stage 1: Confusion Stage 2:Finding and applying the label Stage 3: Settling into the identity Stage 4: Continued uncertainty (refer to pages 269-278) |
| Chapter 25: Anorexia Nervosa and Bulimia | Anorexia: 20-25% loss of initial body weight occurs, resulting from self-starvation alone or in a combination with excessive excercising occasional binge eating, vomiting and/or laxative abuse |
| Bulimia | Denotes cylical binge eating followed by vomitting or laxative abuse |
| What three categories do eating disorders fall under? | 1. Ego psychological 2. Family systems 3. Endocrinoloigical (pg280) |
| Aspects of conforming behavior | -Emphasis on being slim affects everyone in out culture, but it mainly influences women -People who develop anorexia and bulima are conformists in their strong commitment to other conventional norms and goals |
| Continued | People who develop anorexia and bulimia are strongly and excessively attached to their parents |
| Eating disorders and primary deviance | The primary inducement for both was the drive for slimness: with slimness came more self respect and a feeling of superiority over "unsucessful dieters" |
| Eating disorders and secondary deviance | Respondents felt that their disorders gave a purpose to their lives. |
| Chapter 36: Convicted Rapists Vocabulary and Motive | Psychiatry has dominated the literature on rapists since "irresistble impulse" and "disease of the mind" were introduced as causes of rape. |
| Info from the reading | Rape is viewwed as a learned behaior through interaction with others: convicted rapists have learned the attitudes and actions consistent wih secual agression against women. |
| Listed reasons for justifying rape: | 1. Women are seductresses 2. Women mean yes when they say no 3. Most women eventualy relax an enjoy it 4. Nice girls don't get raped 5. Only a minor wrongdoing |
| Listed reasons for exuses of rape: | 1. The use of alcohol or drugs 2. Emotional problems 3. Nice guy image |
| Chapter 29: Negotiatng White Power Activist Stigma | refer to pages 331-343 |
| Reponses to conformity pressures of family and friends: | -Leading a double life -Strategic silence -Selective disclosure |
| Managing expressive constraints at work and school: | -Avoiding others -False fronts -Strategic silence |
| The past aspect of aryans lifestlye | Active and passive idenitity displays in public |
| Chapter 30: Homeless Kids Stigma Mangement Strategies | Mainly about a research study done about homeless in a program Strategies of inclusion and exclusion |
| What were listed strategies of inclusion: | -Foring friendships -Passing (to pass succesfully you have to make your stigma invisible) -Covering |
| What were listed strategies of excluson: | -Physical posturing -Sexual posturing |
| Chapter 31: Collective Stigma Management and Shame | Was a bit confused about this chapter refer to notes on pages 361-377 |
| Orgazational frames were a big part | . |
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