Why Do People Get Tattoos?
Cassie
Ross
Sociology 101
“Why Do People Get Tattoos?”
Many people today get tattoos for different reasons, some being for their own personal reasons, and some being for the cultural and social prospectus around them. Men, women, and even young people today have different types of tattoos that have many different meanings. Miliann Kang and Katherine Jones write about different people and their tattoos. For young people, a general reason for getting a tattoo is because, in a sense, it is a rite of passage for them. Young people want to set themselves apart and assert independence from other young people. Some get tattoos just to show their rebellion against authority figures while others have tattoos to show their own definition of maturity and autonomy. Some people who do not have tattoos say that tattoos are trashy or they are stupid. This is an example of stigma, which is a discrediting attribute of disgrace that leads others to see us as untrustworthy, incompetent, or somehow tainted. I believe that if a person wants to get a tattoo, then let them get a tattoo; this is a free country after all.
Some men will get a tattoo to assert masculinity while some women will get a tattoo to show that women and men are equal. Some reasons why women get tattoos are to show conformity, to show resistance, to show that they are control over their own body, to reclaim their bodies from a traumatic experience (such as cancer), to reveal sexual promiscuity, or to just have a tattoo to feel attractive or strong. Some people get tattoos to show loyalty, whether it is to the military or to a group of friends. Some people who do not have tattoos believe that tattoos are very deviant. The term “deviance” is the violation of cultural and social norms; it is also socially constructed. Some people who are not inked up believe that tattoos reveal behaviors that stray from society’s “norms.” Deviance varies
Ross
Sociology 101
“Why Do People Get Tattoos?”
Many people today get tattoos for different reasons, some being for their own personal reasons, and some being for the cultural and social prospectus around them. Men, women, and even young people today have different types of tattoos that have many different meanings. Miliann Kang and Katherine Jones write about different people and their tattoos. For young people, a general reason for getting a tattoo is because, in a sense, it is a rite of passage for them. Young people want to set themselves apart and assert independence from other young people. Some get tattoos just to show their rebellion against authority figures while others have tattoos to show their own definition of maturity and autonomy. Some people who do not have tattoos say that tattoos are trashy or they are stupid. This is an example of stigma, which is a discrediting attribute of disgrace that leads others to see us as untrustworthy, incompetent, or somehow tainted. I believe that if a person wants to get a tattoo, then let them get a tattoo; this is a free country after all.
Some men will get a tattoo to assert masculinity while some women will get a tattoo to show that women and men are equal. Some reasons why women get tattoos are to show conformity, to show resistance, to show that they are control over their own body, to reclaim their bodies from a traumatic experience (such as cancer), to reveal sexual promiscuity, or to just have a tattoo to feel attractive or strong. Some people get tattoos to show loyalty, whether it is to the military or to a group of friends. Some people who do not have tattoos believe that tattoos are very deviant. The term “deviance” is the violation of cultural and social norms; it is also socially constructed. Some people who are not inked up believe that tattoos reveal behaviors that stray from society’s “norms.” Deviance varies