The web : social control in a lesbian community / Christine M. Robinson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Robinson, Christine M.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social control--Case studies.

Social control.

Lesbian community--United States.

Lesbian community.

Lesbians--Social networks--United States.

Lesbians.

Lesbians--Social networks.

United States.

Genre:

Case studies.

Physical Description:

viii, 123 pages ; 23 cm

Other Title:

Social control in a lesbian community

Place of Publication:

Lanham : University Press of America, [2008]

Summary:

Members of social groups, including communities, routinely exert subtle forms of social control on others. The Web: Social Control in a Lesbian Community is a sociological study examining the effects of informal social control-the response to behavior or people regarded as deviant, problematic, threatening, or undesirable-in everyday life. The context of this study is a lesbian community situated in the heartland of the United States. Based on interviews, participant-observation, and document sources gathered over a period of nine years, the book analyzes the effects of social control on relations of power (based on race, class, and sexual identify) among diverse members of a lesbian community. Although much of what is represented in this book is unique to this lesbian community, the forms and functions of social control analyzed here can be found in any human community.

Contents:

II Methods 25

III The Production of Us and Them 43

IV Protecting Community Space 65

V Norms of the Lesbian Community 83

VI The Production of Community through Social Control 101.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [113]-119) and index.

ISBN:

9780761839026

076183902X

9780761839019

0761839011

OCLC:

166383274