The Poverty of the Sociology of Deviance: Nuts, Sluts, and Preverts

1972 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 103-120 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexander Liazos
Keyword(s):  
Sociology Of Deviance

Notes on the Sociology of Deviance

1962 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 307-314 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kai T. Erikson
Keyword(s):  
Sociology Of Deviance

Powerful Inscriptions: On the Semiotic Phenomenology of BDSM

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard Joseph Martin
Keyword(s):  
Future Research ◽  
Ethnographic Research ◽  
Linguistic Turn ◽  
Making Sense ◽  
Sociology Of Deviance ◽  
History Of ◽  
Semiotic Phenomenology ◽  
Sex Wars

BDSM encompasses a range of practices—bondage and discipline (BD), dominance and submission (DS), sadism and masochism (SM)—involving the consensual exchange of power in erotic contexts. This chapter provides an overview of scholarship on BDSM, drawing on the history of academic studies of the phenomenon, ranging from the psychology of perversion, the sociology of deviance, and the feminist “sex wars” to more recent ethnographic and phenomenological turns. The chapter focuses on the importance of discourse and affect for making sense of BDSM, both for those who seek to analyze the phenomenon and for practitioners themselves. Drawing on ethnographic research and other data, the chapter shows how language and discourse are key to answering interconnected questions about the semiotics and phenomenology of BDSM (what these practices mean and how practitioners experience these practices affectively). Thus, a potential “linguistic turn” in BDSM studies is essential for future research on this erotic minority.

The Mental Patient: Studies in the Sociology of Deviance.

1969 ◽  
Vol 34 (3) ◽  
pp. 429
Author(s):  
Milton J. Brawer ◽  
Stephan P. Spitzer ◽  
Norman K. Denzin
Keyword(s):  
Mental Patient ◽  
Sociology Of Deviance ◽  
Patient Studies

The Mad Genius Controversy: A Study in the Sociology of Deviance.

Social Forces ◽  
1979 ◽  
Vol 58 (2) ◽  
pp. 692 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marcello Truzzi ◽  
George Becker
Keyword(s):  
Sociology Of Deviance

Educational Segregation in Victoria 1900–1968: A View from the Sociology of Deviance

1974 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 50-67 ◽  
Author(s):  
Graeme R. Newman
Keyword(s):  
Interest Groups ◽  
Education Department ◽  
Head Teachers ◽  
Rigid Structure ◽  
Teachers Union ◽  
Historical Materials ◽  
Sociology Of Deviance ◽  
Labelling Theory ◽  
Mental Testing ◽  
Moral Entrepreneurs

The labelling theory of deviance is applied to the study of historical materials concerning the segregation of educational deviants. It is suggested that educational segregation in Victoria gained impetus as a result of various campaigners (‘moral entrepreneurs’), and in addition, the introduction of mental testing with its assumptions of fixed intelligence and dullness provided the rationale for the removal of educational deviants into segregated classes. These classes flourished as a result of pressure brought to bear by various interest groups such as the Teachers' Union and Head Teachers' groups. The ideas of McRae, the architect of the highly flexible segregational system in the 1920's, were subsequently taken over by the Victorian Education Department and turned into a rigid structure, emphasizing the abrupt separation of educational deviants from the normals. This system remained intact until 1968 when a ‘new’ move was made to change opportunity grades into more flexible teaching units.

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