SOC 2070 Chapter Notes - Chapter 12: Erving Goffman, Wild Beasts, Fat Fetishism

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Chapter 12: deviant physical characteristics page #276-303: In earlier eras, babies born with serious deformities were referred to as monsters their appearance was regarded as an evil omen, a sign of divine retribution, a prediction of disasters and epidemics to come. If undesirable physical traits are inflicted on people who did nothing to deserve them, the conclusion is obvious: we are all vulnerable to sudden, catastrophic, and undeserved misfortune. Physical disability: according to eliot freidson, the possession of a physical disability or handicap is a form of deviance this is so because it represent an imputation of undesirable difference as judged by goffman"s normals . Tertiary deviance when people who are judged non-normative by the rest of society fight for equal rights is a crucial element in the physical deviance equation. They are expected to do evil things, and their misdeeds are judged as more wicked than if the same thing was done by a better looking wrongdoer .

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