Description
Book SynopsisTrade Review"[T]he book serves as valuable demonstration of how to build a theoretical framework from general observation, and then test it using a variety of empirical evidence. . . . [and] it provides a valuable direction for scholars looking to examine how people negotiate the intersections of deviant and conforming identities." * Anthropology Book Forum *
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Deviance Management provides a valuable and positive learning experience and opens new vistas to innovative understandings of, and thinking about, deviance, conformity, and social control. In the main, it is an eye-opener that helps us understand some of the sociological patterns that characterize the activities of social movements in their attempts to move stigmatized groups into becoming normalized and mainstreamed." * American Journal of Sociology *
"The book presents a persuasive and powerful integration of a large conceptual reservoir. . . . It is an eye-opener that helps us understand some of the sociological patterns that characterize the activities of social movements in their attempts to move stigmatized groups into becoming normalized and mainstreamed."
* American Journal of Sociology *
Table of ContentsList of Illustrations
List of Tables
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Insiders, Outsiders, Hiders, and Drifters
1. The Complementarity of Deviance and Conformity
2. Deviance and Conformity: The Pressure of Dual Identities
3. Fighting for Normal?
4. Bigfoot: Undiscovered Primate or Interdimensional Spirit?
5. Sexuality and Gender Identity: Assimilation vs. Liberation
6. Insiders and the Normalization of Illegal Drugs
Conclusion: Studying Deviance Management
Appendix 1: On Applying the Theory of Deviance Management
Appendix 2: Supplemental Data Analyses
Notes 1
References
Index
