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Good Trouble

How Deviants, Criminals, Heretics, and Outsiders Have Changed the Worl
  • ISBN-13: 9781498563444
  • Publisher: ROWMAN & LITTLEFIELD PUBLISHERS
    Imprint: LEXINGTON BOOKS
  • By Brian Wolf
  • Price: AUD $228.00
  • Stock: 0 in stock
  • Availability: This book is temporarily out of stock, order will be despatched as soon as fresh stock is received.
  • Local release date: 14/07/2019
  • Format: Hardback 204 pages Weight: 0g
  • Categories: Sociology [JHB]
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This book is written in praise of the criminal; a unique kind of criminal, who is motivated not by personal gain, but ethical altruism. Deviant heroes are those individuals who violate unjust norms and laws, facing the repercussions of social control, effecting positive social change in the process. Using a method that examines how the biographies of individual deviants intersected with history, it probes how criminals and deviants have been on the leading edge of important, positive social changes and the creation of a more just, fair, and humane society. Brian Wolf concludes with an examination of the problem of conformity and how deviant heroism in everyday life may be a remedy for injustice in micro-level social contexts.
Part I: Deviance and Good Trouble Chapter 1: Deviant Heroism Chapter 2: Good Trouble in the Sociological Tradition Part II: Good Trouble against Inequality Chapter 3: Creative Maladjustment: The Words and Actions of Martin Luther King Jr. Chapter 4: Disciplined Nonconformists: The Struggle against Racism Chapter 5: Heretics: Women in Good Trouble Chapter 6: The Agitators: Labor Trouble Chapter 7: Truth-Tellers Chapter 8: Deviant Peacemakers, Lovers, and Dreamers Part III: Good Trouble and the Individual Chapter 9: Complicit Conformity Chapter 10: Good Trouble in Everyday Life
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