Cleaning Up the Dirty Work: Professionalization and the Management of Stigma in the Cosmetic Surgery and Tattoo Industries

Adams, Josh

doi:10.1080/01639625.2010.548297

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“…Moult raisons peuvent motiver l'acquisition d'un tatouage : représenter qui l'ont est et ce que l'on a vécu, exprimer sa relation avec la société ou un groupe, se protéger, ou simplement magnifier la beauté d'une partie de son corps (Dickson et al 2015 ;Kang et Jones 2007 ;VanEseltine et Silver 2009). Associés à une certaine non-conformité et à des comportements antisociaux, les tatouages ont longtemps présenté -et présentent encore parfois -des connotations négatives et une certaine provocation culturelle dans le monde occidental (Adams 2010 ;DeMello 1995 ;Firmin et al 2012 ;Hawkes et al 2004 ;Pitts 1998). Or, les tatouages sont maintenant devenues aussi prévisibles que banals et leur présence n'apparaît plus, par exemple, comme un indicateur ni de mauvaise performance scolaire (Dundes et Francis 2016) ni de traitements négatifs sur le marché du travail (French et al 2016).…”

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Communication: Documents on skin: tattoos and underlying messages

Ménard¹,

Fortier²

2018

CAIS/ACSI

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Ce projet examine le tatouage en tant que document à l'aide de 18 entrevues en profondeur. L'analyse préliminaire des résultats indique l'importance de distinguer le tatouage porteur de sens de celui réalisé à des fins purement esthétiques, et que les deux types peuvent cohabiter. Ils soulignent également, pour ceux porteurs de sens, l'importance de la conservation de l'aspect original du tatouage, même lorsque visuellement mal-aimé ou associé à de mauvais souvenirs, témoignant ainsi de la fonction documentaire de certains tatouages.

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Communication: Documents on skin: tattoos and underlying messages

Ménard¹,

Fortier²

2018

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“…One of the central concerns is how legal codes shape the choices made by cultural producers (Peterson, 1976;Peterson & Anand, 2004). Few studies have attempted to understand the role of law in relation to producers of body modifications, with most focusing on tattooing (Adams, 2012;Lodder, 2012). One area of research that will be fruitful is to examine the legal consciousness (Ewick & Silbey, 1998) of modification workers.…”

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“…Although modifications may be non-medical, those who produce them borrow materials and techniques from the medical world. For example, tattooing has shifted over the last 50 years in the United States to become a more medicalized procedure as some tattooists have sought to increase their degree of professionalism (Adams, 2012;Rubin, 1988). Contemporary tattooists frequently use materials intended to be single use, such as separate ink caps, presterilized needles, single use tubes, disposable gloves, and some even wear smocks and masks.…”

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Understanding body modification: A process‐based framework

Lane

2017

Sociology Compass

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This manuscript evaluates existing literature on body modification. Prior research has focused on the modification itself, either the motivation for attaining it or the meanings behind it from the perspective of the wearer. Considering these prior findings, scholars have neglected to examine how body modifications are the outcome of a complex social process. This manuscript rectifies these weaknesses by addressing the field of body modification through the framework of cultural production. This shifts the focus from the outcome of a social process, the modification, to an analysis of the processes by which modifications are produced. By examining these processes, a more coherent theoretical understanding can be developed.

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“…Adams (2012) provides an excellent example of how differing industries have attempted to manage their stigma over time. He describes the different approaches taken by the cosmetic surgery and tattoo industries during the 20 th Century to achieve greater respectability in the U.S.…”

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Contextualizing dirty work: The neglected role of cultural, historical, and demographic context

Ashforth

Kreiner

2014

Journal of Management & Organization

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Although perceptions of physically, socially, and morally stigmatized occupations – ‘dirty work’ – are socially constructed, very little attention has been paid to how the context shapes those constructions. We explore the impact of historical trends (when), macro and micro cultures (where), and demographic characteristics (who) on the social construction of dirty work. Historically, the rise of hygiene, along with economic and technological development, resulted in greater societal distancing from dirty work, while the rise of liberalism has resulted in greater social acceptance of some morally stigmatized occupations. Culturally, masculinity tends to be preferred over femininity as an ideological discourse for dirty work, unless the occupation is female-dominated; members of collectivist cultures are generally better able than members of individualist cultures to combat the collective-level threat that stigma inherently represents; and members of high power-distance cultures tend to view dirty work more negatively than members of low power-distance cultures. Demographically, marginalized work tends to devolve to marginalized socioeconomic, gender, and racioethnic categories, creating a pernicious and entrapping recursive loop between ‘dirty work’ and being labeled as ‘dirty people.’

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Cleaning Up the Dirty Work: Professionalization and the Management of Stigma in the Cosmetic Surgery and Tattoo Industries

Cited by 40 publications

References 45 publications

Communication: Documents on skin: tattoos and underlying messages

Communication: Documents on skin: tattoos and underlying messages

Understanding body modification: A process‐based framework

Contextualizing dirty work: The neglected role of cultural, historical, and demographic context

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