Extreme Deviance
1st Edition
Published on 19. September 2007
Book
Paperback/Softback
264 pages
978-1-4129-3722-1 (ISBN)
Description
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.
Contributor to the SAGE Teaching Innovations and Professional Development Award
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.
Contributor to the SAGE Teaching Innovations and Professional Development Award
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Thousand Oaks
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 191 mm
Thickness: 14 mm
Weight
500 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4129-3722-1 (9781412937221)
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Schweitzer Classification
Persons
Address for Book Reviews:
Dr.D.Angus Vail
Department of Sociology
Willamette University
900 State Street
Salem, OR 97301
(503)370-6313
Dr.D.Angus Vail
Department of Sociology
Willamette University
900 State Street
Salem, OR 97301
(503)370-6313
Content
Introduction: The Significance of of Extreme Deviance - Erich Goode
Publisher's Acknowledgments
About the Editors
PART I. 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 - Angus Vail
Flesh Journeys: The Radical Body Modification of Neoprimitives - Michael Atkinson and Kevin Young
Personal Account of a Tattoo Collector - Angus Vail
Discussion Questions
PART II. 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 - Christopher D. Bader
Alien Abduction as Mythmaking - Stephanie Kelley-Romano
How Do People Come To Believe They Were Abducted by Aliens? - Susan A. Clancy
Questions
PART III. BEING HUGELY OBESE
Obesity as Extreme Deviance: An Introduction
NAAFA: Attempting to Neutralize the Stigma of the Hugely Obese Body - Debra Gimlin
The Fat Admirer - Erich Goode
Living in an Extremely Deviant Body - "Sally" and "Diane"
Questions
Alien Abductions as Mythmaking - Stephanie Kelley-Romano
How Do People Come to Believe They Were Abducted by Aliens? - Susan A. Clancy
Discussion Questions
PART III. BEING HUGELY OBESE
Obesity as Extreme Deviance: An Introduction
NAAFA: Attempting to Neutralize the Stigma of the Hugely Obese Body - Debra Gimlin
The Fat Admirer - Erich Goode
Living in an Extremely Deviant Body - "Sally" and "Diane"
Discussion Questions
PART IV. BELIEVING IN WHITE SUPREMACY
White Supremacy as Deviance: An Introduction
White Supremacy as Extreme Deviance - Kathleen M. Blee
Interview with Matthew Hale - Russell K. Nieli
What We Believe as White Racists - Tom Metzger
Discussion Questions
PART V. HAVING AND ENDORSING ADULT-CHILD SEXUAL CONTACT
Adult-Child Sexual Contact: An Introduction
Pedophiles and Child Molesters - Keith F. Durkin and Steven Hundersmarck
The World According to NAMBLA: Accounting for Deviance - Mary de Young
From Victim to Offender - "Dave"
The Boylove Manifesto - "jay_h"
Discussion Questions
PART VI. EARTH FIRST! GOING TO EXTREMES TO SAVE THE ENVIRONMENT
Earth First! An Introduction to the Radical Environmentalist Movement
Earth First! Deviance Inside and Out - Rik Scarce
Strategic Experimentation and Stigmatization in Earth First! - Douglas Lloyd Bevington
I Am a Lowbagger - Mike Roselle
Discussion Questions
PART VII. ENGAGING IN S&M SEXUAL PRACTICES
S&M: An Introduction
The Pleasure of Pain - Marianne Apostolides
Sexual Spanking - Rebecca F. Plante
The S&M Experience - "Jackie"
Discussion Questions
Publisher's Acknowledgments
About the Editors
PART I. 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 - Angus Vail
Flesh Journeys: The Radical Body Modification of Neoprimitives - Michael Atkinson and Kevin Young
Personal Account of a Tattoo Collector - Angus Vail
Discussion Questions
PART II. 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 - Christopher D. Bader
Alien Abduction as Mythmaking - Stephanie Kelley-Romano
How Do People Come To Believe They Were Abducted by Aliens? - Susan A. Clancy
Questions
PART III. BEING HUGELY OBESE
Obesity as Extreme Deviance: An Introduction
NAAFA: Attempting to Neutralize the Stigma of the Hugely Obese Body - Debra Gimlin
The Fat Admirer - Erich Goode
Living in an Extremely Deviant Body - "Sally" and "Diane"
Questions
Alien Abductions as Mythmaking - Stephanie Kelley-Romano
How Do People Come to Believe They Were Abducted by Aliens? - Susan A. Clancy
Discussion Questions
PART III. BEING HUGELY OBESE
Obesity as Extreme Deviance: An Introduction
NAAFA: Attempting to Neutralize the Stigma of the Hugely Obese Body - Debra Gimlin
The Fat Admirer - Erich Goode
Living in an Extremely Deviant Body - "Sally" and "Diane"
Discussion Questions
PART IV. BELIEVING IN WHITE SUPREMACY
White Supremacy as Deviance: An Introduction
White Supremacy as Extreme Deviance - Kathleen M. Blee
Interview with Matthew Hale - Russell K. Nieli
What We Believe as White Racists - Tom Metzger
Discussion Questions
PART V. HAVING AND ENDORSING ADULT-CHILD SEXUAL CONTACT
Adult-Child Sexual Contact: An Introduction
Pedophiles and Child Molesters - Keith F. Durkin and Steven Hundersmarck
The World According to NAMBLA: Accounting for Deviance - Mary de Young
From Victim to Offender - "Dave"
The Boylove Manifesto - "jay_h"
Discussion Questions
PART VI. EARTH FIRST! GOING TO EXTREMES TO SAVE THE ENVIRONMENT
Earth First! An Introduction to the Radical Environmentalist Movement
Earth First! Deviance Inside and Out - Rik Scarce
Strategic Experimentation and Stigmatization in Earth First! - Douglas Lloyd Bevington
I Am a Lowbagger - Mike Roselle
Discussion Questions
PART VII. ENGAGING IN S&M SEXUAL PRACTICES
S&M: An Introduction
The Pleasure of Pain - Marianne Apostolides
Sexual Spanking - Rebecca F. Plante
The S&M Experience - "Jackie"
Discussion Questions