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Erving Goffman's View of "Deviance": "Self" and "Society" as the Sources of Deviancy and Conformity.
- Source :
- Deviant Behavior; Feb2021, Vol. 42 Issue 2, p147-161, 15p
- Publication Year :
- 2021
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Abstract
- Not much has been written about Erving Goffman's conception of "deviance". The little that exists often mistakenly reduces it either to what I refer to in this paper as "Stigma and Mental Illness", or diminishes its novelty by rendering it a variant of "interactionist" view of deviance. The argument of this paper is that he had a broader and novel conception of deviance. In fact, he distinguished between six interrelated types of deviance: (1) Deviance related to presentation of "self" in social interactions; (2) Deviance as lack of self-control and violation of interactional scripts; (3) Deviation from assigned social roles in the system of social stratification; (4) Social deviance, i.e., willful and unabashed violation of social order; (5) Deviation from "identity values"; (6) Deviation due to a search for excitement [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- DEVIANT behavior
SOCIAL order
SOCIAL role
SOCIAL stratification
SOCIAL interaction
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 01639625
- Volume :
- 42
- Issue :
- 2
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Deviant Behavior
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 147965289
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1080/01639625.2019.1658845