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Page 117
... deviance . People who look strange or who behave oddly are subversive until their common traits have been formally named and their startling behavior slotted into a recog- nized pigeonhole . By being assigned a name and a role , eerie ...
... deviance . People who look strange or who behave oddly are subversive until their common traits have been formally named and their startling behavior slotted into a recog- nized pigeonhole . By being assigned a name and a role , eerie ...
Page 118
... deviance , authority places the deviant under the control of language and custom and turns him from a threat into a support of the social system . Etiology is socially self - fulfilling : if the sacred disease is believed to be caused ...
... deviance , authority places the deviant under the control of language and custom and turns him from a threat into a support of the social system . Etiology is socially self - fulfilling : if the sacred disease is believed to be caused ...
Page 168
... deviance the character of disease , is a minority position in the West , although it seems to be close to an official doctrine in modern China , where mental illness is per- ceived as a political problem . Maoist politicians are placed ...
... deviance the character of disease , is a minority position in the West , although it seems to be close to an official doctrine in modern China , where mental illness is per- ceived as a political problem . Maoist politicians are placed ...
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Introduction | 3 |
The Medicalization of Life | 39 |
Specific Counterproductivity | 211 |
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