Labeling, Resistance, and Edgework
2.  What do you think is the most important contribution of edgework as a model of voluntary risk-taking?
4.   According to Brent the activity of parkour (i.e., free-running) is at once an emerging popular culture component and also a deviant label. Critique the apparent conflict of this emerging activity through the related concepts of resistance and edgework. Do you think parkour will become more or less popular in the near future?
Stigma, Carnival and the Grotesque Body
2.   Goffman outlines a dual perspective on stigmatization in social interaction. Discuss this difference-between stigma as known about, evident, and discredited versus stigma as not immediately apparent but descreditable in the process of social interaction.  These alternatives demonstrate that stigma(tization) is a constant process of definition and not necessarily a final product or judgment.
3.  In recent years the conceptualization of deviance has been influenced by cultural and literary processes of definition and meaning. As Lane argues,