ISBN:
9781000580198
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (477 pages)
Edition:
13th ed.
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Goode, Erich, 1938 - Deviant behavior
DDC:
302.5/42
Keywords:
Electronic books
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Abweichendes Verhalten
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Kriminalpolitik
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Marihuana
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Entkriminalisierung
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COVID-19
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Black Lives Matter
;
Sexualisierte Gewalt
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Einwanderung
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QAnon
Abstract:
The new 2022 edition of the most widely taught deviance text brings us into a changing political era. Updated throughout, this edition includes a new chapter on political deviance since 2016 and coverage of the Covid-19 pandemic, Black Lives Matter, sexual harassment, the social construction of immigration, and other topics.
Abstract:
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Tables and Charts -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- 1 Introducing Deviance -- Deviance: What Is It? -- Delineating Deviance -- Everyday Sociology -- The Relativity of Defining Deviance -- Positivism versus Constructionism -- The Attitudes, Behavior, and Conditions (ABCs) of Deviance -- Deviant Attitudes and Beliefs -- Undesirable Physical Characteristics as Deviance -- Tribal Stigma: Race, Religion, and Ethnicity -- Societal and Situational Deviance -- Summary -- Account: The Nigerian Scam -- Questions -- 2 Explaining Deviant Behavior -- Deviant Behavior: Why Do They Do It? -- Positivism -- Biological Theories of Deviance and Crime -- Psychological Theories -- Social Disorganization: The Chicago School -- Anomie and Strain Theory -- Differential Association and Learning Theory -- Social Control Theory -- Self-Control Theory -- Free-Will, Rational Choice, and Routine Activity Theory -- Summary -- Account: Drug Use and Crime, One Ex-Convict's Story -- Questions -- 3 Constructing Deviance -- Deviance and Social Control -- Formal and Informal Social Control -- Perspectives That Focus on Defining Deviance: An Introduction -- Labeling or Interactionist Theory -- Conflict Theory -- Feminism -- Controlology -- Summary -- Account: Victimization and Abuse -- Questions -- 4 Poverty and the Hierarchy of Social Class -- Poverty: A Form of Deviance or a Cause-or Both? -- Perspectives on Poverty and Stigma -- Poverty and Affluence in the United States -- Income Inequality -- Unemployment -- Welfare -- The Indignity of Begging -- Homelessness -- What about Disease? -- Summary -- Account: Interview with a Busker, a Formerly Homeless Man -- Questions -- 5 Crime, Criminalization, and Criminal Behavior -- Crime and Deviance: A Conceptual Distinction -- Common Law and Statutory Law.
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