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
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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
