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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.

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• Introduction: The Significance of of Extreme Deviance
• 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
• Flesh Journeys: The Radical Body Modification of Neoprimitives
• Personal Account of a Tattoo Collector
• 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
• Alien Abduction as Mythmaking
• How Do People Come To Believe They Were Abducted by Aliens?
• Questions
• Part III 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
• Part III 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
• Part IV 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
• Part V 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
• 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
• Strategic Experimentation and Stigmatization in Earth First!
• I Am a Lowbagger
• Discussion Questions
• Part VII Engaging in S&M Sexual Practices
• S&M: An Introduction
• The Pleasure of Pain
• Sexual Spanking
• The S&M Experience
• Discussion Questions

Notas de autor provistas por Syndetics

Angus Vail received his PhD, and was instructor of sociology, at the University of Connecticut; he is currently Assistant Professor of Sociology at Willamette University. Vail is the author of several articles on tattooing as deviance, and his dissertation, The Tattoos We Deserve, is being considered by the University of Chicago Press. Erich Goode received his doctorate at Columbia and has taught at half a dozen universities, including the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and New York University, and is Sociology Professor Emeritus at the State University of New York at Stony Brook and Senior Research Scientist in the Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice at the University of Maryland. He is the author of dozens of academic as well as non-scholarly articles as well as 10 books, and the editor of five anthologies, mainly on drug use and deviance. His books include Deviant Behavior (7thed.), Prentice Hall, 2005, and Drugs in American Society, McGraw-Hill (6th ed.), 2005.