Brian Wolf

Good Trouble (eBook, PDF)

How Deviants, Criminals, Heretics, and Outsiders Have Changed the World for the Better

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 1
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Mai 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781978752795
• Artikelnr.: 74830378

Autorenporträt

Brian Wolf is associate professor of criminology and sociology at the University of Idaho.

Inhaltsangabe

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