SOCI 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Erving Goffman, Infertility, Adoption
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Granfield argues that working class status is a stigma that law students must manage. Working class students entered this elite educational institution with a great deal of class pride however identification with the working class began to diminish soon after these students entered law school. Successfully managing the stigma of working class status by adopting elite cultural norms created another kind of problem for working class students. Shows how family socialization (secondary) can be in conflict with law school socialization (secondary) Kim argues that in order to understand the dynamics of which children get adopted, we need to clarify who adoptive parents are. Majority of people who adopt children through legal channels and whites who experience fertility problems. How can couples minimize the stigma through adoption. Kim argues that racial matching is only one dynamic of adoption choices. Supporting social norms related to race relations is another important dynamic.
