Deviance in Everyday Life : Personal Accounts of Unconventional Lives

by Goode, Erich

• ISBN13: 9781577662044
• ISBN10: 1577662040
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-07-01
• Publisher: Waveland Pr Inc

Table of Contents

Preface and Acknowledgments	ix
Foreword	xiii
Introduction	1	(24)
But, Deviants Really Are Different From the Rest of Us--Aren't They?	5	(2)
Is the Term ``Deviant'' Pejorative?	7	(2)
Deviance as a Social Construction	9	(2)
What's Deviant? Who Is the Deviant?	11	(4)
Audiences: Situational versus Societal Deviance	15	(1)
The ABCs of Deviance	16	(2)
Insiders' and Outsiders' Views of Deviance	18	(2)
The Matter of Identity	20	(5)
Deviance in Everyday Life	25	(20)
The Specific versus the General	29	(1)
Deviance and Vocabularies of Motive	30	(5)
Erving Goffman as a Sociologist of Deviance	35	(10)
Danny, the Autistic Artist	45	(26)
Dwight, the Salacious Chauffeur	71	(18)
Sally, the Voluptuous Venus	89	(22)
Annette, the Anguished Anorexic	111	(16)
Leslie and Helen, Loving Lesbian Moms	127	(26)
Harry, the Debonair Drinker	153	(16)
Jeff, the Male Madam	169	(16)
Lenny, the Laissez-Faire Leatherman	185	(16)
Sam, Defender of the Downtrodden	201	(20)
Fred, the Philosophical Felon	221	(28)
The Use of Accounts in the Study of Deviance	249	(16)
What Are Accounts Trying to Achieve?	252	(2)
Verisimilitude and Negotiability	254	(2)
Individual Variation	256	(2)
Cultural Construction	258	(2)
The Interpretive Dimension	260	(2)
A Few Last Words	262	(3)
References	265