Candy Vazquez
April 19, 2016
Intro to Social Psychology
Article Analysis Assignment Allen C. Smith III and Sherryl Kleinman’s article, Managing Emotions in Medical School: Students’ Contacts with the Living and the Dead deals with how medical students deal with the difficulties of being physically intimate with their patients and how they manage their inappropriate feelings as they become physically intimate with their patients, whether dead or alive by touching them. These medical students face a number of problems; one of these problems being the ability to maintain a healthy relationship with the patient. In view of the fact that we distinguish doctors as authoritative figures, and in the United States we have this ideology that people …show more content…
Stratification is how people are unequally ranked in the social structure. Our life chances are part of stratification because it’s when we get the chance to achieve economic prosperity. But even though we can accomplish our life chances, we can also be impacted by multiple forms of oppression, which is known as intersectionality. Stratification impacts who we are able to interact with in 3 ways; 1) the social structure influences who we are able to interact with. Where we are situated in the social structure may limit us to interact with others on equal footing. 2) The role of status and taking the role of the “other”. This means that people in minority groups have to take the role of the “other” more often than a person who is not in a minority group. 3) The ability to define the situation. This is when people in lower structures don’t have as much control defining the …show more content…
Hochschild’s article talks about why people feel the way they feel in certain moments of their lives. Hochschild talks about how Erving Goffman found in one of his studies that individuals are always trying to conform and fit in through their outward appearance and expressions, as well as trying to decide their next move. A term that Hochschild introduces in this article is emotion work. This “refer[s] to the act of trying to change in degree or quality an emotion or feeling” (Hochschild 58). Essentially what this means is that you are trying to change what you feel; it’s what you are trying to feel. Many of the medical students took part in emotion work because they are trying to change the feelings they have from dealing with the human body to what is expected of them to feel. Many students fear that they will be aroused when touching one of their patients. Many that do feel aroused feel guilty and try to change their feelings to what would be considered “normal” in the medical community by changing the way they look at the patient. The same applies for medical students that feel disgusted with their
April 19, 2016
Intro to Social Psychology
Article Analysis Assignment Allen C. Smith III and Sherryl Kleinman’s article, Managing Emotions in Medical School: Students’ Contacts with the Living and the Dead deals with how medical students deal with the difficulties of being physically intimate with their patients and how they manage their inappropriate feelings as they become physically intimate with their patients, whether dead or alive by touching them. These medical students face a number of problems; one of these problems being the ability to maintain a healthy relationship with the patient. In view of the fact that we distinguish doctors as authoritative figures, and in the United States we have this ideology that people …show more content…
Stratification is how people are unequally ranked in the social structure. Our life chances are part of stratification because it’s when we get the chance to achieve economic prosperity. But even though we can accomplish our life chances, we can also be impacted by multiple forms of oppression, which is known as intersectionality. Stratification impacts who we are able to interact with in 3 ways; 1) the social structure influences who we are able to interact with. Where we are situated in the social structure may limit us to interact with others on equal footing. 2) The role of status and taking the role of the “other”. This means that people in minority groups have to take the role of the “other” more often than a person who is not in a minority group. 3) The ability to define the situation. This is when people in lower structures don’t have as much control defining the …show more content…
Hochschild’s article talks about why people feel the way they feel in certain moments of their lives. Hochschild talks about how Erving Goffman found in one of his studies that individuals are always trying to conform and fit in through their outward appearance and expressions, as well as trying to decide their next move. A term that Hochschild introduces in this article is emotion work. This “refer[s] to the act of trying to change in degree or quality an emotion or feeling” (Hochschild 58). Essentially what this means is that you are trying to change what you feel; it’s what you are trying to feel. Many of the medical students took part in emotion work because they are trying to change the feelings they have from dealing with the human body to what is expected of them to feel. Many students fear that they will be aroused when touching one of their patients. Many that do feel aroused feel guilty and try to change their feelings to what would be considered “normal” in the medical community by changing the way they look at the patient. The same applies for medical students that feel disgusted with their