SOC 2070 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Birthmark, Labeling Theory, Homophobia

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 2070
• Professor: Patrick Parnaby

Document Summary

But deviants are not always passive recipients of labels or stigma. Kitsuse"s tertiary deviance as resistance, when individuals go out of their way to fend of that stigma. Ex. gay rights movement, in addition to legal advances, they were trying to resist stigma placed on gay individuals. Ex. mental health and disability movement, always labelled deviant in many different ways, but try to fend off stigma there are more subtle ways of managing labels and stigma. Minimizing negative effects on our sense of self information control goffman, doing your best to control what other people know about you, two different forms: Biographic (ability to control your biographical information) Homophobia and women"s sport (blinde and taub 1992) Discovered that these women would try to manage this information about themselves to fend off the labels, would go out of their way to tell people that they didn"t play these sports, or didn"t volunteer the information (biographic)