Managing Deviance - Deviance and Social Control - Lecture Slides, Slides of Sociology of Deviance

Download Managing Deviance - Deviance and Social Control - Lecture Slides and more Slides Sociology of Deviance in PDF only on Docsity! Managing Deviance I: The Deviant Career docsity.com The Concept of Management • “Management” refers to social control – Prevention – Treatment – Punishment • “Management” also refers to personal control – Organization – Facilitation – Sometimes, prevention etc as w/ social control docsity.com Duff and Kay on Female Bodybuilders • Claim of benefit • “Blasting” • “Basking in reflected glory” (“BIRGing”) • Denying the issue (implied in Duff and Kay) docsity.com Thompson and Harred on Strippers • Dividing the social world (from Goffman) • Techniques of neutralization – “I need the money, and where else can I make this kind of money” – “The people who condemn me are hypocrites” – “I’m doing this for my kids” docsity.com Troiden on Managing Homosexuality among Gay Men • Capitulation: Becoming celibate or attempting to “go straight” • Minstrelization: Behaving consistently with stereotypes, which is safer since it does not entail allegations of “deception” from bashers • Passing: More “dividing the social world” • Group alignment: More “participation in deviant subcultures” • Troiden’s research was conducted in a southern US college town- perhaps he saw no examples of gay men who simply lived openly as in many larger cities. docsity.com