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Good Trouble
How Deviants, Criminals, Heretics, and Outsiders Have Changed the World for the Better
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2019
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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.
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Copyright year
2019
ISBN-Print
978-1-4985-6344-4
ISBN-Online
978-1-4985-6345-1
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
187
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Acknowledgments No access
Preface No access
1 Deviant Heroism No access
2 Good Trouble in the Sociological Tradition No access
3 Creative Maladjustment No access
4 Disciplined Nonconformists No access
5 Heretics No access
6 The Agitators No access
7 Truth-Tellers No access
8 Deviant Peacemakers, Lovers, and Dreamers No access
