Managing Deviance I: The Deviant Career

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Managing Deviance I The Deviant Career
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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

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Managing a Deviant Career

• A career is an enduring lifestyle which entails
  practical skills and an emotional attachment- not
  all jobs are careers.
• Deviant careers are more challenging than
  non-deviant ones given the disparaged nature of
  deviant careers, so there are various methods of
  concealment and vocabularies of motive that are
  part of the deviant career.

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Managing Deviance by Deviants Elliott on
Dimensions of Coping

• Secrecy
• Rationalizations
• Change to non-deviance
• Participation in deviant subcultures

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Duff and Kay on Female Bodybuilders

• Claim of benefit
• Blasting
• Basking in reflected glory (BIRGing)
• Denying the issue (implied in Duff and Kay)

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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
• Im doing this for my kids

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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
• Troidens 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.