Class

Question 1

What is stigmatization?

Answer 1

-a process of devaluation 🡪 perceptions, understandings, attitudes, and behaviours of individuals who are stigmatised and thus devalued, discredited, and dehumanized

Question 2

What is stigma management?

Answer 2

The process of concealing/disclosing aspects of ones identity to minimize social stigmas

Question 3

What is cultural capital?

Answer 3

he total sum of “usable resources and powers” that individuals have and use in their everyday practices and social interactions

Question 4

What are three forms of cultural capital?

Answer 4

1- The embodied form – mental and bodily dispositions
2- The objectified form – cultural products (e.g., artworks)
3- The institutionalized form – educational credentials (e.g., BA degree)

Question 5

What is cultural competence?

Answer 5

Educational qualifications and cultural experiences and practices/how to act in a particular social or institutional setting

Question 6

Primary adjustments:

Answer 6

a process of modifying, adapting, or altering individual or collective patterns of behavior so as to bring them into conformity with other such patterns, as with those provided by a cultural environment.
Eamples:
Dress, speech, social behaviour

Question 7

Symbols of class status:

Answer 7

Behavior(Etiquette, dress, way of speaking, ect)

Question 8

Consequences of primary adjustment:

Answer 8

experiencing psychological stress
feelings of being a cultural outsider despite being a social insider
overcompensating for real or perceived personal failures

Question 9

What is identity ambivalence?

Answer 9

the state of having mixed feelings or contradictory ideas about conflicting things in ones identity

Question 10

What are some adjustment strategies(secondary adjustments)

Answer 10

Distancing, modifying views, avoidance