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

Brian Wolf

doi:10.5771/9781498563451

Summary

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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Edition: 1/2019
Copyright Year: 2019
ISBN-Print: 978-1-4985-6344-4
ISBN-Online: 978-1-4985-6345-1
Publisher: Lexington, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 187
Product Type: Monograph

1. Table of Contents No access
2. Acknowledgments No access
3. Preface No access
1. 1 Deviant Heroism No access
2. 2 Good Trouble in the Sociological Tradition No access
1. 3 Creative Maladjustment No access
2. 4 Disciplined Nonconformists No access
3. 5 Heretics No access
4. 6 The Agitators No access
5. 7 Truth-Tellers No access
6. 8 Deviant Peacemakers, Lovers, and Dreamers No access
1. 9 Complicit Conformity No access
2. 10 Good Trouble in Everyday Life No access
Works Cited No access Pages 163 - 176
Index No access Pages 177 - 186
About the Author No access Pages 187 - 187