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I’m working on a sociology writing question and need an explanation and answer to help me learn.

ONE PAGE ESSAY – Article – Higgins: “Outsiders in a Hearing World”

Online Version: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=…

a. One would think that membership in the deaf community would be based on being deaf, an ascribed condition [vs an achieved membership]. In fact, this is not the case. Explain.

b. Name and explain the three characteristics leading to membership in the deaf community.

c. Explain how the deaf community is not homogenous [as one might naively think without knowing its characteristics].

d. Describe the two principal modes of communication among the deaf and how this is the basis for the most important division among deaf people.

e. Look up Erving Goffman’s concepts of “the own” and “the wise” as they relate to this article, as well as the idea of courtesy stigmas. Explain.