Two Faces Of Deviance: Crimes Of The Powerless And The Powerful by John Braithwaite
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Overview: Most books on deviance consist of collections of articles on perverts and pimps, nuts and sluts. Such books sell well because as Lenin first pointed out “the middle classes love to be shocked”. This book also seeks to shock by showing how the degradation of pimps and pervs is in part a process of systematic oppression which attracts public attention away from the extraordinary deviance of the most powerful groups in Australian society. But before we begin that task we must ask what does the term deviance mean.
Most people have a commonsense understanding of deviance as meaning not normal. Yet an Olympic gold medallist, who is certainly not a normal human being, would never be called a deviant, because he is abnormal in a “right” rather than a “wrong” kind of way. So whilst harlots will often be called deviants, virgins rarely attract that label, and while mental defectives might be labelled deviant, geniuses will almost never be.
Sociologists define deviance in most explicit terms: deviants are people who violate societal rules. Homosexuals and marijuana users break rules, so one often hears sociologists refer to them as deviant. At the other end of the power continuum, Richard Nixon broke rules and for that he was castigated by many epithets, but not once did a sociologist refer to Richard Nixon as a deviant. One of the key arguments of this book is that, in both everyday discourse and in sociological discourse, deviance is used in a two-faced way that is implicitly subservient to the powerful and explicitly oppressive of the powerless.
Genre: Non-Fiction > Biographies & Memoirs > True Crime
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