Normal Deviants and Erving Goffman: Extending the Literature on Organizational Stigma

Jensen, Tommy; Sandström, Johan

doi:10.19154/njwls.v5i4.4847

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“…The assumption that stigma transfers to new members of a stigmatized group or occupation dates back to Goffman's (1963) seminal work, and has been shown repeatedly to hold in a variety of settings (Bergman and Chalkley, 2007; Hudson and Okhuysen, 2009; Jensen and Sandstrom, 2015; Jonsson et al, 2009; Rivera and Tracy, 2014; Thomson and Grandy, 2018; Wolfe and Blithe, 2015). Indeed, the fact that stigma transfers so readily is a reason non‐stigmatized actors avoid and exclude those who are stigmatized.…”

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confidence: 99%

When Stigma Doesn’t Transfer: Stigma Deflection and Occupational Stratification in the Sharing Economy

Phung

Buchanan

Toubiana

et al. 2020

J Management Studies

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Research has suggested that when an occupation is stigmatized, new occupational members will assume the stigma of incumbents because stigma transfers. Yet, current research does not account for shifts in the modern workforce that are changing the nature of many stigmatized occupations. We argue that these changes raise questions about whether stigma will transfer to new occupational members. Drawing from a study of Uber’s entry into Toronto, Canada, we reveal the process by which stigma transfer can be avoided by new occupational members. We show how categorical ambiguity during entry enabled two sets of activities: creating categorical distinctiveness and showcasing identity discrepancies. These activities acted as mechanisms of stigma deflection by distancing Uber drivers from the taint associated with taxi drivers. However, this further entrenched the taint facing incumbents and stratified the occupation along a stigma faultline. We offer implications for research on stigma, market entry, and the sharing economy.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

When Stigma Doesn’t Transfer: Stigma Deflection and Occupational Stratification in the Sharing Economy

Phung

Buchanan

Toubiana

et al. 2020

J Management Studies

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“…Goffman's theoretical model continues to be the analytical lens used by scholars from different disciplines, most notably in the fields of political movements (Tyler, 2018), law school (Bliss, 2017), classical ballet (Whiteside & Kelly, 2016), gambling (Shalin, 2016), horse training (Dellwing, 2016), communications and politics (Brown, 2010;Kravel-Tovi, 2012), nursing, hospitals and health care (Capps, 2016;Hays & Weinert, 2006;O'Brien, Payne, Nolan & Ingleton, 2010;Oliver, Porock & Oliver, 2006), organizational deviance (Jensen & Sandstrom, 2015) and psychoanalysis (Marcus, 2010). When life is viewed as a theatre, as it was by Goffman, the average person can find more meaning and live a better life when he/she can be expressive and impress others (Marcus, 2010, p. 758).…”

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Theoretical Reductionism: Forcing a Covering Law Doctrine of Behavioral Psychology on the Sociology of Everyday Communication and Interaction

Farmer¹

2018

jsss

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This paper is an attempt to show that despite the stated differences in the explanations of interaction motives and rituals espoused by micro-sociologists, the major approach to the study of communication, language and social exchange is behavioral psychology. This includes the use of the covering law propositions of hedonism and cost-benefit analysis. With evidence from original writings, the author creates a Homansian assimilation of Goffman’s dramaturgical analysis.

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“…These studies have moved beyond definitional understandings of stigma to the epistemological conceptions, considering how stigma construction translates to both organizations and individuals (Jensen and Sandström, 2015; Link and Phelan, 2001; Yang et al., 2007). Jensen and Sandström (2015) recently asked how is stigma socially constructed but individually experienced? What moral connotations accompany stigma within these contexts and how does stigma link to institutional racism and gender?…”

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confidence: 99%

The neighborhood school stigma: School choice, stratification, and shame

McWilliams

2017

Policy Futures in Education

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Social scientists have begun to document the stratifying effects of over a decade of unprecedented charter growth in urban districts. An exodus of students from traditional neighborhood schools to charter schools has attended this growth, creating troubling numbers of vacant seats in neighborhood schools as well as concentrating larger percentages of high-need student populations like special education students and English Language Learners in these schools ( Buras, 2014 ; Gabor, 2014 ; Knefel, 2014 ). In cities like Philadelphia, the maintenance of two parallel educational systems – one charter, the other district – has also strained budgets and contributed to fiscal crises that have further divested traditional district schools of critical resources (Popp, 2014). How are youth, teachers, and staff in neighborhood schools responding to these conditions and the moral associations that the “neighborhood school” has come to invoke within an expanding educational marketplace? What does it mean to attend and/or work in a traditional neighborhood school in the midst of the dramatic restructuring of urban public education? Using frameworks developed in anthropological and sociological studies of social stigma, I explore in this paper how the power of market stratification has come to influence the intensification of institutional stigmas around the traditional neighborhood school ( Anyon, 1980 ; Goffman, 1963 ; Link and Phelan, 2001 ). Drawing on ethnographic data from a neighborhood school in Philadelphia, I center youth perspectives on their aspirations and life chances given their status as students in a non-selective neighborhood school in my analysis. I ultimately interrogate how notions of race, educational quality, and [lack of] school choice, impact this neighborhood school community’s sense of worth and future as individuals as well as an institution.

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Normal Deviants and Erving Goffman: Extending the Literature on Organizational Stigma

Cited by 18 publications

References 40 publications

When Stigma Doesn’t Transfer: Stigma Deflection and Occupational Stratification in the Sharing Economy

When Stigma Doesn’t Transfer: Stigma Deflection and Occupational Stratification in the Sharing Economy

Theoretical Reductionism: Forcing a Covering Law Doctrine of Behavioral Psychology on the Sociology of Everyday Communication and Interaction

The neighborhood school stigma: School choice, stratification, and shame

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