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Managing Deviance I: The Deviant

Career

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

Managing Deviance by Deviants: Elliott on

“Dimensions of Coping”

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

Duff and Kay on Female Bodybuilders

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

Kay)

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.