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Deviance : career of a concept / Joel Best.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Best, Joel.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Deviant behavior--Labeling theory.
- Deviant behavior.
- Sociology--Terminology--History.
- Sociology.
- History.
- Genre:
- Terminology.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 100 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Belmont, CA : Thomson/Wadsworth, [2004]
- Summary:
- One of America's foremost experts on deviance, Joel Best, explores the history of the study of deviance in this short, highly accessible supplementary text. Joel Best covers the emergence of anomie theory in the 1950s, the rise of labeling theory in the 1960s, and the shifts in the field as it came under criticism from other theoretical perspectives.
- Contents:
- 1 Discovering Deviance 1
- Before Deviance 1
- Deviance's Predecessors 3
- Deviation, Deviate, Deviant, and Deviance 8
- The Appeal of Deviance 10
- Placing Deviance in Context 12
- 2 The Rise of Labeling 15
- Howard S. Becker's Role 17
- The Labeling School 19
- Labeling's Subjects 21
- Mainstream Approaches to Deviance in the 1960s 23
- The 1960s as the Context for Labeling Theory 25
- Labeling Triumphant (1967-1974) 28
- Labeling's Vision 31
- 3 Labeling Under Attack 33
- Conflic Theory's Criticism 35
- The Feminist Critique 38
- The Challenge from Identity Politics 41
- Mainstream Sociology's Attack 45
- Labeling in Retreat 49
- 4 Labeling's Legacy 53
- Social Constructionism, Medicalization, and Social Movements 54
- New Directions for Qualitative Studies of Deviance 59
- Deviant Transactions 60
- Deviant Careers 61
- Emotions and Deviance 63
- Incorporating Other Theoretical Perspectives 64
- Discourse and Deviance 64
- The Importance of Gender 65
- New or Neglected Research Topics 66
- Labeling's Descendants 68
- 5 The Revival of Criminology and the Neglect of Deviance 71
- Control's Role in Criminality 73
- The Place of Crime 75
- Rediscovering Strain's Role in Crime 78
- Specialization and Risk 80
- Deviance's Prospects 83.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 89-97) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0534570011
- OCLC:
- 52340915
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