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
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
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