Looking Deviant 1

Question 1

Physical Appearance & its relation to deviance

Answer 1

• When someone has a “deviant” appearance, this can lead to a difference in treatment

Question 2

What is looked for in physical appearance

Answer 2

• We are more likely attracted to ppl who are in line with our cultural ideals
• Basically all social interaction is subject to your appearance

Question 3

Voluntary Appearance .vs. Involuntary Appearance

Answer 3

Voluntary appearance - Your appearance is any result of choice
↳ you may be associated with a certain lifestyle

Involuntary appearance - Limited to no choice in your appearance

• There is somewhat of a blurred line between the 2

remember burka example

Question 4

Cultural Appropriation

Answer 4

• The adoption of certain elements of another cultre wthout regard for their history or meaning
  ↳ JB having dreadlocks, ppl got angry
  ↳ Beyonce wearing a saari

Question 5

What do Bodies Tell Us? - Obj .vs. Sub

Answer 5

Objective - Body tells us who you are, personality, intelligence
↳ puts the person under a microscope

Subjective - Bodies can tell us about identities, self-expression, how ppl understand themselves
↳ Put society under a microscope

Question 6

The Halo Effect

Answer 6

• People who are “good looking” are better people
  ↳ Thinner & more attractive ppl are seen to have better self control, intelligence
• Strangers are more likely to help good looking individuals
• Attractive workers tend to have a higher income than not attractive ppl
• They are also less likely to be found guilty

Beauty standards are learned through media

Question 7

Racial Variation in Body Image

Answer 7

Body Image - Comprises one’s thoughts, feelings and behaviours related to one’s physical appearance
- In NA the white body is considered superior
- Depending on where you live will dicate how you adheere to NA standards
↳ heavily based around culture

Question 8

Changing Our Appearance - 4 ways

Answer 8

1) Camouflaging - everyday ways we control the appearance of our bodies
↳ makeup, clothing etc
2) Extending - Overcoming physical limitations
↳ improved function of your body (i.e. glasses)
3) Adapting - removing or repairing
↳ weightloss, lipo, braces
4) Redesigning - reconstruction of body in lasting ways (boob job, tats, piercing)

↳ Broken into 2 catgories as to why we do it:
1) They may change the function of our bodies
2) They can modify the appearance of our bodies

Question 9

Ruling on Body Modification

Answer 9

• How it was seen was dependent on who was in power
• Significant variation in acceptance
  ↳ Body mods were seen as savage and less developed by European colonizers
  ↳ The old testament condemned people from modifying their bodies

Question 10

Objective Side of Body Modifications

Answer 10

Body Mods tell us about the psychology of the person
1) Risk - assumed to be more at risk (have faced abuse, troubled back)
↳ Social Control efforts - society believes youths doinf body mods are at risk, doctors should look at the risk factors these people are exposed to

2) Motivation
- Aesthetic
- Pursuit of Identity
↳ Social Identity - who you want to be grouped with
↳ Individual Identity - how you wannt to express yourself as an individual

Question 11

Subjective Side of Body Modifications

Answer 11

Subjective Side:
- Body modifications are not from identity, but the social interactions around us

Interpretive Theories:
- Understanding of self through interaction

Question 12

Goffman’s Dramaturgical Approach - Subjective

Answer 12

• Goffman put emphasis on how you construct you front & back stage self
  ↳ The determination of where your tats/piercings are placed
  ↳ If you want smthg to be in your front stage what group are you showing it to
  ↳ Think Huberman and his tats

Question 13

Women & Tattoos

Answer 13

• Women with tats are stigmatized
  ↳ presumed to be heavier drinkers & more promiscuous
  ↳ observer matters because men view women with tats more negatively than women do

Question 14

3 Types of Tattoos for women

Answer 14

• Contruction of the gendered self
  1) Established femininity
  ↳ women seems more womanly not always sexualized
  2) Resistant femininity
  ↳ Oppose gender expectations
  ↳ Women get these as a form of resistance to men
  3) Negotiatied femininty - source of liberation, but concealable
  ↳ Women want to be liberated with these tats
  ↳ NOT association (like resistance), smaller and hidden

Question 15

Straightedge Tattoos

Answer 15

• Tats as ideological messages: Resistance to percieved hedonism and self indulgence in our world

1) Symbols of lifestyle declaration - Improve self & society as a whole
↳ emphasis on physical purity
2) Symbols of pacification - no crime
3) Symbols of indictment - critisize the wrong in the world