Deviance Management: Insiders, Outsiders, Hiders, and Drifters

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Univ of California Press, Sep 10, 2019 - Social Science - 232 pages
Deviance Management examines how individuals and subcultures manage the stigma of being labeled socially deviant. Exploring high-tension religious groups, white power movements, paranormal subcultures, LGBTQ groups, drifters, recreational drug and alcohol users, and more, the authors identify how and when people combat, defy, hide from, or run from being stigmatized as “deviant.” While most texts emphasize the criminological features of deviance, the authors’ coverage here showcases the diversity of social and noncriminal deviance. Deviance Management allows for a more thorough understanding of strategies typically used by normalization movements to destigmatize behaviors and identities while contributing to the study of social movements and intra-movement conflict.
 

Contents

Members of the Westboro Baptist Church
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Deviance management subtypes
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The Complementarity of Deviance and Conformity
11
The Pressure of Dual Identities
27
Fighting for Normal?
52
Most common pathways of transition between deviance management types
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Undiscovered Primate or Interdimensional Spirit? 5 Sexuality and Gender Identity Assimilation vs Liberation 72 97
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Being out to both parents among lesbian and bisexual women by deviance management type
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Being out to most or all coworkers among lesbian and bisexual women by deviance management type
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Social movement participation among LGBT Americans by conventional
119
Insiders and the Normalization of Illegal Drugs
122
Americans attitudes toward marijuana legalization
141
Studying Deviance Management
146
Percentage of Americans who believe that sexual relations between
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On Applying the Theory of Deviance Management
155

Participation in Bigfoot subculture activities
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Levels of involvement in the Bigfoot subculture
88
Average number of paranormal beliefs by deviance management type
92
Support for killing Bigfoot by deviance management type
93
Use of horoscopes and psychics
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Predicted probabilities of scoring above the sample mean on liberation ideology by conventional and subcultural identity
109
Supplemental Data Analyses
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Ordinal Logistic Regression Model Predicting Liberationist Ideology
162
References
191
Index
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Christopher D. Bader is Professor of Sociology at Chapman University. He is coauthor of America's Four Gods, Faithful Measures, and Paranormal AmericaJoseph O. Baker is Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology & Anthropology at East Tennessee State University and coauthor of American Secularism and Paranormal America

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