Narrating the Transgressive Self. (November 2014)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Goode, Erich
• Is Part Of: Contexts. Volume 13:Number 4(2014:Autumn)
• Page Start: 57
• Page End: 59
• Publication Date: 2014-11
• Subjects: Erich Goode -- memoirs -- George Herbert Mead -- deviance -- transgressive behavior; Social sciences -- Periodicals; Social sciences -- United States -- Periodicals; United States -- Social conditions -- Periodicals; 301.05
• DOI: 10.1177/1536504214558219
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1536-5042

Abstract

Since Augustine penned his Confessions, authors of memoirs describing their transgressive behavior have teetered on a balance beam between telling an interesting, exciting, naughty story, and exculpating their character for their participation in it, through the use of deviance neutralizing devices; here sociologist Erich Goode explains how this balancing act is accomplished.