Word: deviant
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...spent entirely in the company of his own sex. Is this routine rehabilitating? On the contrary, says Psychologist Wolf Wolfensberger of the Nebraska Psychiatric Institute, it is Rehabilitating. Writing in the American Journal of Psychiatry, Dr. Wolfensberger pleads for what he calls the principle of normalization: treat a deviant normally and he will behave, if not normally, at least less abnormally...
...Francisco Bay Area for which we recruited almost 6,000 homosexuals. Only a small percentage of those are represented in Boys in the Band. Some day someone will produce a play or movie that depicts a typical homosexual role in our society. And it won't portray a "deviant" behavior but rather a "variant." And that can be beautiful...
...company with most of the new sociologists, Horowitz is bent on redefining the traditionally accepted symptoms of social deviance: divorce, homosexuality, crime and revolution. In a white-dominated society, for that matter, a man can be labeled deviant just because he is black. "But how do we know what is and is not deviant?" asks Horowitz. "When 41% of all marriages end in divorce, for example, must we still regard divorce as a social problem?" Instead of asking the question, "What went wrong with the marriage?" he suggests, the sociologist should ask: "What's wrong with the institution...