Random Acts of Kindness
A Teaching Tool for Positive Deviance
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11064413 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Angela Lewellyn Jones (Elon University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1998 |
| Volume | 26 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 179 |
| Publication date | 1998-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Teaching Sociology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0092-055X • E-ISSN: 1939-862X |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.2307/1318831 |
| OpenAlex | W2008776964 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 11 |
| References cited | 1 |
Instilling in students a sociological imagination while introducing them to the study of deviant behaviors, which many of them have never encountered, is a difficult task. Students inevitably seem to get caught up in the weirdness of certain deviant subcultures with which they are unfamiliar. In addition, they arrive with established notions of deviance, which the popular media and political rhetoric create and maintain. Our challenge in teaching the sociology of deviant behavior is to help students understand why there are behaviors considered deviant, and why it is important to understand these behaviors from a sociological point of view. In other words, one goal of the Sociology of Deviant Behavior course is to banish ethnocentric points of view regarding deviant categories of individuals and groups through the development of a clearer understanding of how deviance is created and defined
Deviance (statistics · Kindness · Pedagogy · Positive deviance · Sociology · Theology · Computer Science · Digital Games and Media · Media Studies and Communication · Philosophy · Psychology · Social Media and Politics · Social Psychology
Wikis and Wikipedia as a teaching tool
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Making Sociology Relevant
Overcoming “Doom and Gloom”
Saints and Sinners
The Gift-Giver as Social Deviant
Deviant Heroes
Following Heavenly Orders
A Framework for the Study of Positive Deviance in Organizations
Are You Kynd? Conformity and Deviance Within the Jamband Subculture
Toward the Construct Definition of Positive Deviance
| Unique citing works | 11 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,48 |
| Citation span | 2003 - 2022 (20) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 10 |