Table of Contents

Prologue to the Percheron Press Edition, Joel Best

1. Introduction: Ideological Matters

2. Introduction: Logical Matters

I. The Deviant Act

3. The Defensive Deviant Act: Threat and Encapsulation

4. The Defensive Deviant Act: Closure

5. The Adventurous Deviant Act

II. The Assumption of Deviant Identity

6. Social Identification as Pivotally Deviant

7. Escalation to Deviant Identity: Others and Places

8. Escalation to Deviant Identity: Hardware and Actor

III. The Assumption of Normal Identity

9. Social Identification as Pivotally Normal

10. Escalation to Normal Identity: Others and Places

11. Escalation to Normal Identity: Hardware and Actor

12. Concluding Remarks

Bibliographic Index

About the Author

John Lofland, University of California, Davis, Davis, California

 

Joel Best, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware (new prologue)

Reviews

[A]n attempt to systematize, elaborate, and extend—occasionally with insight and imagination—the concepts generated by Goffman’s sociology of everyday life. (John I. Kitsuse, American Sociological Review)

'At a time when the field of deviance is being flooded by redundant books of readings, it is most refreshing to encounter a theoretically oriented work which attempts to bring together and synthesize some of the currently popular literature in this area.' (Steven G. Lubeck, Social Forces)

'[B]elong[s] to a current and dominant trend in modern sociology which places deviance in its natural and total cultural context.' (Marvin K. Opler, American Journal of Sociology)