John Lofland, University of California, Davis, Davis, California   Joel Best, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware (new prologue)

• Prologue to the Percheron Press Edition, Joel Best 1. Introduction: Ideological Matters 2. Introduction: Logical Matters I. The Deviant Act 3. The Defensive Deviant Act: Threat and Encapsulation 4. The Defensive Deviant Act: Closure 5. The Adventurous Deviant Act II. The Assumption of Deviant Identity 6. Social Identification as Pivotally Deviant 7. Escalation to Deviant Identity: Others and Places 8. Escalation to Deviant Identity: Hardware and Actor III. The Assumption of Normal Identity 9. Social Identification as Pivotally Normal 10. Escalation to Normal Identity: Others and Places 11. Escalation to Normal Identity: Hardware and Actor 12. Concluding Remarks Bibliographic Index

[A]n attempt to systematize, elaborate, and extend—occasionally with insight and imagination—the concepts generated by Goffman’s sociology of everyday life. (John I. Kitsuse, American Sociological Review) 'At a time when the field of deviance is being flooded by redundant books of readings, it is most refreshing to encounter a theoretically oriented work which attempts to bring together and synthesize some of the currently popular literature in this area.' (Steven G. Lubeck, Social Forces) '[B]elong[s] to a current and dominant trend in modern sociology which places deviance in its natural and total cultural context.' (Marvin K. Opler, American Journal of Sociology)