Deck 30: Fitting in and Fighting Back: Homeless Kids Stigma Management Strategies

Question 1

Roschelle and Kaufman point out that while researchers since Goffman have tended to focus on the positive outcomes of stigma management strategies for the self

A) less attention should be devoted to the whole issue of spoiled identities.
B) more attention should be given to why there is stigma in the first place.
C) fewer ethnographic studies relating to homelessness have been conducted.
D) more attention should be given to ways in which such strategies may further spoil one's identity.

Answer 1

more attention should be given to ways in which such strategies may further spoil one's identity.

Question 2

Roschelle and Kaufman recognize that stigma and homelessness involve or reflect

A) a process of structural differentiation.
B) both macro-level issues of power and micro-level processes of interaction.
C) both macro-level issues of interaction and micro-level issues of conflict.
D) primarily the macro-level dimension of power which defines homelessness as a stigma in the first place.

Answer 2

both macro-level issues of power and micro-level processes of interaction.

Question 3

Roschelle and Kaufman note that a study focusing on the stigmatization of homeless children requires a special attentiveness on the part of the researcher because

A) the stigma of poverty outweighs all other statuses.
B) being poor does not always translate into homelessness.
C) survey research requires careful questionnaires and a research design.
D) being poor, a member of a minority group, and homeless all reflect several marginal statuses.

Answer 3

being poor, a member of a minority group, and homeless all reflect several marginal statuses.

Question 4

The homeless children which Roschelle and Kaufman studied used which of the following stigma management strategies

A) strategies of inclusion and strategies of exclusion.
B) relied on internet to acquire information about their situation.
C) most homeless children simply give up and do not try to reduce their stigma.
D) strategies of reduction through challenge of stereotypes.

Question 5

Forging friendships, passing, and covering are examples of what stigma management strategy?

A) giving up.
B) exclusion.
C) inclusion.
D) reduction.

Question 6

Verbal denigration, physical posturing, and sexual posturing are examples of what stigma management strategy?

A) exclusion.
B) giving up.
C) inclusion.
D) reduction.

Question 7

Homeless kids adopting the dress and demeanor of nonhomeless kids is an example of

A) covering.
B) physical posturing.
C) forging friendships.
D) passing.

Question 8

(As other kids approached) "The (homeless) kids grabbed their pants and pulled them down several inches to mimic the large baggy low-riding pants of the gangbanger (and) turned their baseball caps around so brim in back…"

A) this is example of covering.
B) this is example of verbal denigration.
C) this is example of physical posturing.
D) this is example of forging friendships.

Question 9

Discuss the special challenges associated with studying disadvantaged, marginalized populations such as homeless children. Do you believe Roschelle and Kaufman have been successful in their research in overcoming these difficulties? Why or why not-explain.

Question 10

Discuss each of the two major strategies (inclusion and exclusion) homeless children employed in their stigma management of being poor and homeless. Explain specific ways in which each of these strategies were accomplished.

Question 11

Explain how the stigma management strategies of homeless children can have the unintended consequence of perpetuating their spoiled identities by furthering negative stereotypes.