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