This paper attempts to determine a method for making use of the “image of deviation,” which we fieldworkers possess and typically regard as a bias contaminating our research, as a resource for interpretation, and by doing so open the door to the field of “deviation.” Among qualitative studies of educational sociology, only a handful have focused on the self (involvement, attitude, etc.)...
Recently, many people have come to categorize “drugs” as deviance or a socialproblem. “Drugs” have been categorized in the public “drug” discourse by therhetoric of endangerment, unreason, and with “atrocity tales.” On the otherhand, how is the “drug” discourse concerned with the interpretive activities ofdrug users, which are carried out locally?This paper discusses the relationship between...