By Howard S. Becker
Probably the most groundbreaking sociology texts of the mid-20th century, Howard S. Becker’s Outsiders is a radical exploration of social deviance and the way it may be addressed in an knowing and important manner.
A compulsively readable and punctiliously researched exploration of social deviance and the applying of what's referred to as "labeling concept" to the reports of deviance. With specific study into drug tradition, Outsiders analyzes unconventional contributors and their position in basic society.
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Important factors in the genesis of deviant behavior, then, may be sought in the processes by which people are emancipated from the controls of society and become responsive to those of a smaller group. Social controls affect individual behavior, in the first instance, through the use of power, the application of sanctions. Valued behavior is rewarded and negatively valued behavior is punished. Control would be diflicult to maintain if enforcement were always needed, so that more subtle mechanisms performing the same function arise.
Vell,I mean, as I say, I was just first starting to play jobs as a mUSICIan when I got on and I was also in a position to drink on the jobs, you know. And these guys just told me it was silly to drink. They didn't drink either. Additional rationalizations enable the user to suggest to himself that the drug's effects, rather than being harmful, are in fact beneficial: 74 Marihuana Use and Social Control I have had some that made me feel like ... very invigorated and also it gives a very strong appetite.
I couldn't trust myself when I was high. I was afraid I'd get too high, and pass out completely, or do stupid things. I didn't want to get too. "ged. ] Well, It S Just one of those things, man. One night I turned on and I JUst. suddenly felt real great, relaxed, you know, I was really swmgmg WIth It. From Say, I'll tell you something that just lillls me, man, I mean it's really terrible. Have you ever got high and than had to face your family? I really dread that. Like having to talk to my father or mother, or brothers, man, ir's just too much.