Exam 11: Deviant Physical Characteristics

Erving Goffman, author of Stigma, referred to the general population, the people who do not possess stigmatizing characteristics or attributes, as:

Tertiary deviance is:

Ned Polsky excludes physical characteristics from his definition of deviance.

Evolutionary psychologists argue that standards of beauty are so variable and relative the world over that nearly every physical characteristic that is considered in one society is judged unattractive in another.

Studies on judgments of deviance made by observers about the misbehavior of children have found that:

Studies show that people are more likely to impute a deviant character to unattractive norm violator than to an attractive norm violator.

In the Middle Ages, the dominant explanation for the appearance of unexplained and undesirable physical characteristics was:

According to Erving Goffman, author of Stigma, people who fail to meet an acceptable standard of physical attractiveness possess a spoiled identity and are disqualified from full social acceptance.

From the perspective of the sociology of deviance, obesity represents the best example of:

When subjects from all over the world are shown photographs of faces from different racial categories and asked to pass judgment on the attractiveness of the faces in the pictures, researchers find that:

Compare and contrast two types of physical deviance-say, the obese with the physically disabled, or the extremely unattractive with the heavily tattooed-first, with respect to how they articulate with key conventional, tried-and-true concepts (age, gender, religion, SES, urban vs. rural, etc.), second, how they intersect with other types of deviance, and third, how they link up with their etiology or causality. True-False

Which of the following is specifically not a form of physical deviance in this society?

Which of the following is true?

Even babies respond more favorably to an attractive face than to an unattractive one.

In his analysis of stigma, Goffman specifically excludes homosexuality from the category of humans who possess "blemishes of individual character."

For which of the following physical characteristics is the moral dimension most important?

Erving Goffman, author of Stigma, refers to the stigma that results from possessing physical characteristics as:

To be stigmatized is to possess a contaminated or discredited identity.

Physical deviance is by definition and by its very nature involuntary.

An FA is: