Injae Baik
10.16.2015
Exercise #1
1. Specification
a) The title of the article is “Good Girls” : Gender, Social Class, and Slut Discourse on Campus, written by Elizabeth A. Armstrong1, Laura T. Hamilton2, Elizabeth M. Armstrong1, and J. Lotus Seeley. Total page is 24 including citation page. This article cited from Alexander, Michele G. and Terri D. Fisher. 2003. ‘‘Truth and Consequences: Using the Bogus Pipeline to Examine Sex Differences in Self-Reported Sexuality.’’ Journal of Sex Research 40(1):27–35, Berger, Joseph, Cecilia L. Ridgeway, and Morris Zelditch. 2002. ‘‘Construction of Status and Referential Structures.’’ Sociological Theory 20(2):157–79, Crocker, Jennifer. 1999. ‘‘Social Stigma and Self-Esteem: Situational Construction of Self-Worth.’’ Journal of Experimental Social Psychology 35(1):89–107, etc.
b) In society, disadvantage to woman by name of slut shaming is a big issue that …show more content…
Midway through college there were no friendships crossing this line, despite the cross group interactions necessitated by living on the same floor. Women enforced moral boundaries on uneven ground. Most cases of conflict `occurred when lower status women lured by the promise of fun, status, and belonging attempted to interact with high status women, especially in the party scene Sexual labels were exchanged fluidly but rarely became stably attached to particular women. Stigma was instead produced in interaction, as women defined their virtue against real or imagined bad girls. The boundaries women drew were shaped by status on campus, which was closely linked to class background. Higher status women considered the performance of a classy femininity, which relied on economic advantage as proof that one was not trashy. In contrast, low status women, mostly from less affluent backgrounds, emphasized niceness and viewed partying as evidence of