Extreme Deviance

by Erich Goode

• ISBN13: 9781412937221
• ISBN10: 1412937221
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-08-03
• Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc

Summary

Most primary deviation is of transitory significance and involves a fairly insignificant punishment. Extreme Deviance focuses on behavior, beliefs, and traits that are so serious as to generate, in the words of Edwin Lemert, secondary deviation. Editors Erich Goode and D. Angus Vail tunnel to the core of the subject by emphasizing a set of central lessons, offering edgy, pedagogically dramatic illustrations of principles that are contained in no other collection of readings. The book is complete with vocabularies of motive, deviance neutralization, the acquisition of a deviant identity, and the formation of a deviance subculture. Key Features   Exemplifies the concept of deviance to the fullest extent, from primary to secondary deviation : By focusing on extreme deviance, this book explores the full range of the consequence of normative violations. Presents vivid examples : Examples are dramatic, difficult to forget, and manifest from the normative violation through condemnation to the creation of deviance stereotyping, social isolation, and stigmatization. Offers an engaging text-reader format : Each chapter begins with a detailed introduction written by the editors followed by two selections written by sociological experts in the field and one personal account. Intended Audience    This book is designed for undergraduate courses such as Sociology of Deviant Behavior, Deviant Behavior, and Social Deviance in the department of sociology.

Table of Contents

Introduction: The Significance of of Extreme Deviance

Publisher's Acknowledgments

About the Editors

Extreme Tattooing

Bod Mod to the Max! An Introduction to Body Modification as Deviance

Tattoos Are Like Potato Chips... You Can't Have Just One: The Process of Becoming and Being a Collector

Flesh Journeys: The Radical Body Modification of Neoprimitives

Personal Account of a Tattoo Collector

Discussion Questions

Believing That One has Been Kidnapped by Extraterrestrials

Being Abducted by Aliens as a Deviant Belief: An Introduction

Alien Attraction: The Subculture of UFO Contactees and Abductees

Alien Abduction as Mythmaking

How Do People Come To Believe They Were Abducted by Aliens?

Questions

Being Hugely Obese

Obesity as Extreme Deviance: An Introduction

NAAFA: Attempting to Neutralize the Stigma of the Hugely Obese Body

The Fat Admirer

Living in an Extremely Deviant Body

Questions

Alien Abductions as Mythmaking

How Do People Come to Believe They Were Abducted by Aliens?

Discussion Questions

Being Hugely Obese

Obesity as Extreme Deviance: An Introduction

NAAFA: Attempting to Neutralize the Stigma of the Hugely Obese Body

The Fat Admirer

Living in an Extremely Deviant Body

Discussion Questions

Believing in White Supremacy

White Supremacy as Deviance: An Introduction

White Supremacy as Extreme Deviance

Interview with Matthew Hale

What We Believe as White Racists

Discussion Questions

Having and Endorsing Adult-Child Sexual Contact

Adult-Child Sexual Contact: An Introduction

Pedophiles and Child Molesters

The World According to NAMBLA: Accounting for Deviance

From Victim to Offender

The Boylove Manifesto

Discussion Questions

Earth First! Going to Extremes to Save The Environment

Earth First! An Introduction to the Radical Environmentalist Movement

Earth First! Deviance Inside and Out

Strategic Experimentation and Stigmatization in Earth First!

I Am a Lowbagger

Discussion Questions

Engaging in S&M Sexual Practices

S&M: An Introduction

The Pleasure of Pain

Sexual Spanking

The S&M Experience

Discussion Questions

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