Deviance : social constructions and blurred boundaries / Leon Anderson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Anderson, Leon, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Deviant behavior.

Criminal behavior.

Mental illness.

Social interaction.

Social ethics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (496 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, [2017]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Deviance: Social Constructions and Blurred Boundaries draws on up-to-date scholarship across a wide spectrum of deviance categories, providing a symbolic interactionist analysis of the deviance process. The book addresses positivistic theories of deviant behavior within a description of the deviance process that encompasses the work of deviance claims-makers, rule-breakers, and social control agents. Students: are introduced to the sociology of deviancelearn to analyze several kinds of criminal deviance that involve unwilling victims-such as murder, rape, street-level property crime, and white-collar crimelearn to examine several categories of "lifestyle" and "status" deviancedevelop skills for critical analysis of criminal justice and social policiesOverall, students gain an understanding of the sociology of deviance through cross-cultural comparisons, historical overview of deviance in the U.S., and up-close analysis of the lived experience of those who are labeled deviant as well as responses to them in the U.S. today. Instructor Resources are available to easily help with lecture and exam preparation.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Preface

SECTION 1. Theories and Methods in Deviance Studies

Chapter 1. Views of Deviance

Chapter 2. Getting Close to Deviance

Chapter 3. Positivistic Theories of Deviant Behavior

Chapter 4. Symbolic Interactionist/Social Constructionist Perspective

SECTION 2. High Consensus Criminal Deviance

Chapter 5. Murder

Chapter 6. Rape

Chapter 7. Financially Motivated Crime in the Streets

Chapter 8. White-Collar Crime

SECTION 3. Lifestyle Deviance

Chapter 9. Alcohol Abuse

Chapter 10. Drug Abuse

Chapter 11. Sex Work

SECTION 4. Status Deviance

Chapter 12. Mental Illness

Chapter 13. Obesity and Eating Disorders

Chapter 14. LGBTQ Identities

References

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 16. Mai 2019)

ISBN:

9780520965935

0520965930

OCLC:

972640279