Deviant Identity — Identity Development and Accounts

Deviant Identity — Identity Development and Accounts

Deviance in U.S. Society (SOCY 1004)

 INSTRUCTIONS

 Read the assigned book chapters (see below), and then complete the comprehension exercises and key term definitions included here in the worksheet. Reference your completed worksheet while reviewing lecture to check your comprehension. This Reading Comprehension Worksheet: Part V(1)  

READINGS • The Adoption and Management of a ‘‘Fat’’ Identity (Degher and Hughes) • The Paradox of the Bisexual Identity (Weinberg, Williams, and Pryor) • Anorexia Nervosa and Bulimia (McLorg and Taub) • Challenging a Marginalized Identity: The Female Parolee (Opsal) • Convicted Rapists’ Vocabulary of Motive (Scully and Marolla) • The Devil Made Me Do It: Use of Neutralizations by Shoplifters (Cromwell and Thurman)

 COMPREHENSION EXERCISES The Adoption and Management of a ‘‘Fat’’ Identity (Degher and Hughes)

Critical Thinking Questions

1. Discuss the process of developing a “fat identity” as presented by Degher and Hughes in their study. What do you see as the major advantage of viewing the issue of obesity in this way? Explain.

2. How are the eternal components of status cues related to the internal components within the development of a “fat” identity? Explain fully. The Paradox of the Bisexual Identity (Weinberg, Williams, and Pryor)

Critical Thinking Questions

1. Discuss the four stages of “becoming bisexual” presented by Weinberg et al. What are the issues and concerns for a person at each stage of this process? 1 Anorexia Nervosa and Bulimia (McLorg and Taub)

Critical Thinking Questions

1. Discuss several of the conforming behaviors of anorexics and bulimics. Why are women more likely than men to develop eating disorders? Explain.

2. Discuss anorexia and bulimia in terms of the concepts of primary and secondary deviance. Fully explain. Challenging a Marginalized Identity: The Female Parolee (Opsal)

Critical Thinking Questions

1. Identify and discuss how women parolees deal with the stigma of being incarcerated. What strategies or techniques do they use to rationalize or justify their past behaviors or actions? Are some of these strategies or techniques more effective than others? Why or why not?

2. Identify and discuss the ways women parolees connect to a culturally coveted social identity? What motivates them to lead a life without crime? Convicted Rapists’ Vocabulary of Motive (Scully and Marolla)

 Critical Thinking Questions

1. What were some of the shared characteristics of admitters and deniers of rape in Scully and Marolla’s study? 2

 2. What are the (external) contributing factors for the views of women in our society? How does this compare, for example, of views of women in conservative societies such as Saudi Arabia? The Devil Made Me Do It: Use of Neutralizations by Shoplifters (Cromwell and Thurman)

Critical Thinking Questions

 1. Discuss why shoplifters, even though participants in a relatively widespread “folk” crime in our society, invariably employ various techniques of neutralization for their crime? Explain.

2. Describe and identify the nine neutralizations Cromwell and Thurman found in their research regarding shoplifters’ attempts to justify their crimes. Which do you think are most likely used in everyday life as well? Explain.

3. Describe and identify the two new neutralization techniques identified by Cromwell and Thurman, giving examples.

 DEFINING KEY TERMS • Deviant identity career • Spoiled identity • Dynamics of exclusion • Master status • Auxiliary traits • Primary deviance • Secondary deviance 3 • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Tertiary deviance Discreditable type of stigma Discredited type of stigma Deviance (dis)avowal Expressive dimension Instrumental dimension Conformity Alienation Career Status cues Recognizing Placing New status Initial confusion Finding and applying the label Settling in the identity Continued uncertainty Role engulfment Defense of necessity Everybody does it Justification by comparison Vocabularies of motive Techniques of neutralization Denial of responsibility Denial of injury Denial of victim Appeal to higher loyalties Condemning the condemners Excuses and justifications Accounts Disclaimers 4

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