Deviance Management

Christopher D. Bader is Professor of Sociology at Chapman University. He is coauthor of America's Four Gods, Faithful Measures, and Paranormal America. Joseph O. Baker is Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology & Anthropology at East Tennessee State University and coauthor of American Secularism and Paranormal America.

• List of IllustrationsList of TablesAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Insiders, Outsiders, Hiders, and Drifters1. The Complementarity of Deviance and Conformity2. Deviance and Conformity: The Pressure of Dual Identities3. Fighting for Normal?4. Bigfoot: Undiscovered Primate or Interdimensional Spirit?5. Sexuality and Gender Identity: Assimilation vs. Liberation6. Insiders and the Normalization of Illegal DrugsConclusion: Studying Deviance ManagementAppendix 1: On Applying the Theory of Deviance ManagementAppendix 2: Supplemental Data AnalysesNotes 1ReferencesIndex

"[T]he book serves as valuable demonstration of how to build a theoretical framework from general observation, and then test it using a variety of empirical evidence. . . . [and] it provides a valuable direction for scholars looking to examine how people negotiate the intersections of deviant and conforming identities."