Zusammenfassung der Ressource
On the Sociology of Deviance
Kai T. Erikson
- Communities = families, whole cultures, nations, small groups
- boundary maintaining
- maintained by behavior of community members
- community boundaries established
and reestablished during these
confrontations
- can change with leadership changes, shift in
community mood, with new generations
- members stay in close contact
- members feel special
- retains a cultural integrity
- official, policing agents will confront persons (deviants) whose
activities have moved outside of the margins
of the group
- could take the form of criminal trials,
excommunitcaiton hearings,
courts-martial, psychiatric case
conferences
- confrontations attract attention
- Communities, institutions perpetuate deviance
- hospitals, prison, similar agencies
- even teaching each other deviant career
- "the lewd inflame the more modest; the
audacious harden the timid. Everyone
fortifies himself as he can against his own
remaining sensibility; endeavoring to practice
on others the arts thatt are practiced on
himself; and to gain the applause of his worst
associates by imitating his manners.
- we are a people who don't deviants to change very much
- deviant sanctions performed using ceremonies
- ceremonies are almost impossible to reverse
- deviant rushed into deviant
position dramatically but removed
with barely a word of public notice
- deviant returns home with stigmas
and community distrust and
community apprehension