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- Stigma
- is a negative label that is socially applied because you are not living up to societies expectations. comes from the difference between virtual social identity and actual social identity
- Virtual Social Identity
- attributes that we think people should have based on social roles and expectations their roles entail
- Actual Social Identity
- attributes the person actually posses, they violate expectations
- 3 “Types†of Stigma
- Abomination of the Body, Blemishes of Individual Character, Tribal stigma
- Abomination of the Body
- # physical stigmas about your physical self that goes against your social expectations # (i.e. tattoos, “Cat manâ€, burn victim, missing/deformed limb, redhead)
- Blemishes of Individual Character
- * Something about the persons character/personality that is tainted. * (i.e. unemployed, attracted to children, homosexual, suicidal, virgin at a adult age)
- Tribal Stigma
- * One acquires through race, religion, or nation * Apply attributes to different race, ethnicity (criminal) * Stigma can be passed down from generation to generation * (i.e. non-white, relative to Al Capone or Hitler)
- 2 States of Stigmatization
- 1. Discreditable 2. Discredited
- Discreditable
- # a secret stigma (concealed) * Doesn’t mean no one knows, just means public doesn’t know of it in most contexts
- Discredited
- immediate obvious stigma. # impossible to hide or you choice not to hide the stigma * Publicly identified as a pedefile , little person * i.e. burn victim, turrets
- Deviance of Avowel
- - try to normalize their relationships with non-deviants by openly acknowledging their stigma and attempting to put it in a positive light.
- Deviance Disavowel
- the deviant and the norm ignore each other
- deviant transaction
- when one or more ppl orient themselves to a deviant goal in which they will benefit.
- Crews
- # a small team of deviance who engage in the deviance together but they do not share the same tasks * Ocean’s 11 movie, Gone in Sixty Seconds
- Two types of exchanges
- Sales & Trades
- Trades
- less complex than sales (there is not a lot of knowledge or skill needed to complete exchange). Low division of labor. * Men who have sex with me in public places (TEAROOM TRADE)
- Sales
- This requires sophisticated knowledge and skills. Must understand how to carry out the transaction. May require research on how to do the deviant sales. ex. Prostitution.
- deviant transactions(2):
- exploitation and exchanges
- exploitations
- when a person uses stealth, tricks or physical force to make another person surrender something against their will
- exchange
- a type of transaction where people voluntarily exchange elicit goods or services.
- Entering Deviant Careers (4):
- * Defensively- you enter the career unintentionally * Drifting- * Conscious- they realize that it is happening- want what is available in that career * Sponsorship- someone brings you into the group o Expert or Novice
- ways to keep stigma hidden:
- passing- copy things that normal ppl would do covering - create a "cover story" Leading a false life - double life (two different lifestyles)
- mutual association
- extent to which deviants talk to other similar deviants
- mutual participation
- extent to which they carry out deviance with other deviants of their kind.
- Deviant stigma symbols
- highly visible sign from other people's perspective and advertises the deviants failing
- disidentifiers
- props, actions, or verbal expressions that are used to make others believe they are not deviant.
- example of covering
- eating disorder: they say they have to take pills that cause them to eat less for a medical condition they have.
- example of leading a double life.
- tea room trade. the men identify as heterosexual but interacted with other homosexuals sexually.
- example of discreditable
- homeless kids that dont want other kids to know they are homeless
- example of discredited
- burn victim, someone with terrets
- example of colleges
- nambla - mutually associate, men love boys
- example of peers
- youth street gangs
- example of crews
- oceans 11
- example of formal organization
- goodfellas
- 4 steps to confidence games:
- 1) qualify the mark 2) cultivate your mark (build the person up) 3) conning (you receive what u want) 4) cooling out the mark (make them believe that they were not conned)
- hedging
- is when the victim tries to act like they weren't the victim of a confidence game even tho they really were.
- similarity between trades and sales
- they both involve locating and protecting the deviant market place
- deviant marketplace
- where deviance is actually happening or where you go to look for deviant sales ex. parks, strip clubs
- what do pimps offer and what do prostitutes offer
- pimp - comfort, supervision, and intamacy prostitutes - affection, their bodies, and financial support
- main diff between trades and sales
- trades - all are considered equal sales - division of authority, seller has more authority