Module 4 Study Guide: Chapters 29-31

Module 4 Study Guide: Chapters 29-31

1. Chapter 29

   • Negotiating White Power Activist Stigma
     • Aryan Stigma, Dissonance, and Expressive Balance
       • White Power Movement
       • Covert
       • Calculated Conformity
   • Method and Data
     • Ethnographic data - White power activists between 1996 and 2005
     • Interviews, participant observation and content analysis
   • Negotiating Activist Stigma in Everyday Settings
   • Responses 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
   • Active and Passive Identity Displays in Public
     • Decide how much of themselves to reveal in public
       • Passive Displays
         • Restraint
       • Active Displays
         • Open displays - courage
       • Public legitimation
         • Organizational Strategy

2. Chapter 30

   • Fitting In and Fighting Back: Homeless Kids' Stigma Management Strategies
     • Research Site
       • Sand Francisco: Home Away from Home / Homeless Shelter
     • Stigma Management Strategies
       • Stigma = language of relationships as opposed to the attributes a person possesses
     • Strategies of Inclusion
       • Forging friendships
       • Passing
         • Make stigma invisible
       • Covering
         • Minimize the prominence of their spoiled identity
     • Strategies of Exclusion
       • Verbal Denigration
         • Malign others to augment their self-esteem
           • "Defensive othering"
       • Physical Posturing
         • Physical assertiveness
       • Sexual Posturing
         • Promiscuity
         • Exploitation
         • Violence

3. Chapter 31

   • Collective Stigma Management and Shame: Avowal, Management, and Contestation
     • Three Stigma Management Groups
       • Overeaters Anonymous (OA)
       • Weight Watchers (WW)
       • National Association to Advance Fat Acceptance (NAAFA)
       • "Women's Organizations"
         • Analysis of shame
     • Data Collection, Embarrassment and Shame
       • Gained 25 lbs for "fat identiy"
     • Organizational Frames
       • Definitions constructed and maintained by organizational actors within which experience, interaction and communication are structured and rendered both personally and organizationally meaningful
       • Organizational Frame of OA: Redemption
         • Spiritual Consciousness - therapeutic group process
         • Serenity prayer
       • Organizational Frame of NAAFA: Activism
         • Legislature, rallies
         • Personal Activism
         • Legislative Activism
       • Organizational Frame of WW: Rationality
         • Technique, not spiritual practice
         • Pre-established activities / meal plans / portion control
     • Shame Work
       • Shame Work in OA
         • compulsive overeating and resultant body size
         • Primary Shame
           • social / invoked by others
         • Secondary Shame
           • physical actions / attribues
       • Shame Work in WW
         • Body shame
           • Central to women
         • Bodily Monitoring
       • Shame Work in NAAFA
         • Contest shame
         • "Change the world, not your body"