Toward α “Sunlit Path”: Stigma Identity Management As α Source of Localized Social Change Through Interaction

Lyons, Brent J.; Pek, Simon; Wessel, Jennifer

doi:10.5465/amr.2015.0189

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“…For example, Lok (2010) shows that the social construction of an identity based on a particular institutional logic inherently involves the conditioning of practice and vice versa. Similarly, research on identity work of stigmatized individuals demonstrates how negotiation of identity meanings can subvert relative symbolic power differences between social groups and influence their understanding of both the stigmatized and dominant identities at the group level (Creed et al, 2010; Lyons et al, 2017). What these studies show is that the particular ways in which individuals see themselves and attach meanings to their identities influences how they act on external relationships and negotiate collective social identities.…”

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“…The multiplex hybrid identity work of the pracademics also manifested itself externally in the ways they managed identity threat and negotiate legitimacy in the host academic environment. They used both resonant and oppositional identity claims (Lyons et al, 2017) to reconcile knowledge differences and contest the academic knowledge hierarchy that privileged theoretical/textual knowledge. Resonant claims minimize their identity’s differential value and oppositional claims project their differences in a positive light so as to influence negotiations (Roberts, 2005).…”

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Hybrids, identity and knowledge boundaries: Creative artists between academic and practitioner communities

Lam

2019

Human Relations

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Hybrid people can be riven by identity conflicts and yet be profoundly disruptive of social boundaries. How can we understand these two facets of hybridity? This study examines how internal identity conflict resolution is related to external boundary disruption by focusing on the identity work of individuals who cross professional knowledge boundaries. It looks at artist-academic hybrids who operate at the interface between the academic and art worlds. The analysis shows the dynamic interplay between their hybrid identity work and knowledge boundary work. It distinguishes three categories of hybrids (‘Janusian’, ‘ambivalent’ and ‘asymmetric’) whose varied identity work strategies (‘integrative’, ‘multiplex’ and ‘buffering’) disrupt knowledge boundaries in different ways (‘blurring’, ‘transgressing’ and ‘brokering’). The study sheds light on the varied nature of hybrids and the mutually constitutive nature of their internal and external identity work. It advances our understanding of identity work as an agentic activity and reveals the identity processes underlying the disruption of knowledge boundaries.

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Hybrids, identity and knowledge boundaries: Creative artists between academic and practitioner communities

Lam

2019

Human Relations

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“…SDRs may perceive novelty in disclosure events because the discloser’s behavior represents a marked contrast from their previous task-related and social interactions. That is, an SDR might perceive the disclosure event as novel because, up to that point, prior interactions have not alerted them to a new and hitherto “hidden” aspect of the discloser’s overall identity or persona at work (Lyons, et al, 2017). For instance, consider the disclosure of pregnancy by the sole female member of a team to a fellow team member.…”

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“…We develop a theory of how the initial communication of a stigmatized identity by the discloser makes a stigmatizing difference salient and triggers identity threat responses from managers, supervisors, or coworkers who are SDRs. In this way, we acknowledge that disclosure events are not only a context in which the discloser manages and presents his/her stigmatized identity; it is also an arena in which the SDR, who has more dominance and inherent power in this “marked relationship” (Lyons et al, 2017), manages their “unmarked” identity.…”

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On the front lines of disclosure: A conceptual framework of disclosure events

Johnson

Joshi²,

Hogan

2020

Organizational Psychology Review

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An important yet understudied element of the stigma disclosure calculus is the response of individuals who are the recipients of stigmatizing information—individuals who are essentially on the front lines of disclosure. Stigma disclosure recipients (SDRs) have a profound influence on disclosers’ workplace experience, yet there is a minimal understanding of how SDRs manage their responses during disclosure encounters. This article contributes to stigma identity management and workplace diversity research by focusing on the antecedents and outcomes of SDRs’ responses in organizations. We apply a novel event systems perspective to disclosure events, which allows us to develop a generalizable framework to understand the psychological and behavioral responses of SDRs across different types of stigmas. Our framework offers a unique perspective on how disclosure events trigger stigma-induced identity threat, which underlies a range of SDRs’ hostile and supportive behaviors. Overall, we propose that these responses of SDRs have important implications for the perpetuation and dismantling of stigma in the workplace. We offer implications for research and practice.

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“…The literature on police power (Dubber, 2005;Neocleous, 2000) discusses how police are given leeway to eliminate anything that might be a threat in their role of creating and maintaining public order. Legitimacy is the basis for symbolic power differences (Bourdieu, 1991;Lyons, Pek, & Wessel, 2017). As Parker and Aggleton (2003) note, there is a loss of legitimacy when one becomes associated with a stigmatized identity.…”

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Is policing becoming a tainted profession? Media, public perceptions, and implications

Chatterjee¹,

Ryan

2020

J Organ Behavior

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Summary Stigmatized professions are those where physical, social, and/or moral taints are applied. Stigma theorists hold that stigma is socially communicated and changes over time, but it is unclear if stigma content can be applied to those who are seen as powerful. Two studies examined how the impact of sociopolitical discourses on policing, a profession that carries legitimate power, on the tainting of the profession and distrust in policing. In an examination of archival news media clips on policing (N = 200), results show that media coverage over time (between 2011 and 2016) has used a more negative tone in discussing police–citizen interactions, and these findings varied by conservative versus liberal media. Importantly, across media sources, taints were ascribed to policing. In a second survey study, individuals directly ascribed taints to policing (N = 169). Relative to other jobs, policing was categorized as a pervasively stigmatized job (i.e., high frequency and strong potency of taints were applied). It was also found that those who discussed media stories tended to distrust police more. Implications for efforts to recruit, select, and train officers and to improve police–community relations are discussed; findings may also generalize to other public and community facing professions.

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Toward α “Sunlit Path”: Stigma Identity Management As α Source of Localized Social Change Through Interaction

Cited by 38 publications

References 58 publications

Hybrids, identity and knowledge boundaries: Creative artists between academic and practitioner communities

Hybrids, identity and knowledge boundaries: Creative artists between academic and practitioner communities

On the front lines of disclosure: A conceptual framework of disclosure events

Is policing becoming a tainted profession? Media, public perceptions, and implications

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