ISBN:
9780415642606
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (1359 p)
Series Statement:
Contemporary Sociological Perspectives
Parallel Title:
Print version Understanding Deviance : Connecting Classical and Contemporary Perspectives
DDC:
302.5/42
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
In this collection of 48 reprinted and completely original articles, Tammy Anderson gives her fellow instructors of undergraduate deviance a refreshing way to energize and revitalize their courses. [36 are reprints; 12 are original to this text/anthology]First, in 12 separate sections, she presents a wide range of deviant behaviors, traits, and conditions including: underage drinking and drunk driving, doping in elite sports, gang behavior, community crime, juvenile delinquency, hate crime, prison violence and transgendered prisoners, mental illness, drug-using women and domestic violence, obe
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Title; Copyright; CONTENTS; Series Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgments; SECTION 1 Defining Deviance; Introduction; Rules for the Distinction of the Normal from the Pathological; Notes on the Sociology of Deviance; Outsiders: Definitions of Deviance; Defining Deviancy Down; Connections: Definitions of Deviance and the Case of Underage Drinking and Drunk Driving; Critical Thinking Questions; SECTION 2 Functionalism, Anomie, General Strain Theory; Introduction; Social Structure and Anomie; Homeboys, New Jacks, and Anomie; A General Strain Theory of Community Differences in Crime Rates
Description / Table of Contents:
Connections: Understanding Doping in Elite Sports through Anomie and General Strain PerspectivesCritical Thinking Questions; SECTION 3 Social Disorganization and Collective Efficacy; Introduction; Juvenile Delinquency and Urban Areas; Collective Efficacy Theory: Lessons Learned and Directions for Future Inquiry; The Urban Ecology of Bias Crime: A Study of Disorganized and Defended Neighborhoods; Connections: The Prison Community from a Social Disorganization and Collective Efficacy Perspective; Critical Thinking Questions; SECTION 4 Social Pathology, Degeneracy, and Medicalization
Description / Table of Contents:
IntroductionSocial Pathology; Whatever Happened to Social Pathology? Conceptual Fashions and the Sociology of Deviance; The Shifting Engines of Medicalization; Connections: Mental Illness as Degeneracy, Disease, and Genetics; Critical Thinking Questions; SECTION 5 Labeling, Resistance, and Edgework; Introduction; Beyond Mead: The Societal Reaction to Deviance; Edgework: A Social Psychological Analysis of Voluntary Risk-Taking; Resistance as Edgework in Violent Intimate Relationships of Drug-Involved Women; Connections: Parkour through Labeling, Resistance, and Edgework
Description / Table of Contents:
Critical Thinking QuestionsSECTION 6 Stigma, Carnival, and the Grotesque Body; Introduction; Stigma and Social Identity; Why Do People Get Tattoos?; Big Handsome Men, Bears, and Others: Virtual Constructions of "Fat Male Embodiment"; Connections: Explaining Body Deviance with Stigma and Carnival of the Grotesque; Critical Thinking Questions; SECTION 7 Deviant Careers, Identity, and Lifecourse Criminology; Introduction; Outsiders: Kinds of Deviance: A Sequential Model; Crime and Deviance in the Life-Course
Description / Table of Contents:
Weighing the Consequences of a Deviant Career: Factors Leading to an Exit From ProstitutionConnections: Deviant Career and Life-Course Criminology Using Street Prostitution; Critical Thinking Questions; SECTION 8 Moral Panics and Risk Society; Introduction; Deviance and Moral Panics; Moral Panics: Culture, Politics, and Social Construction; Moral Panic Versus the Risk Society: The Implications of the Changing Sites of Social Anxiety; Connections: [A]moral Panics and Risk in Contemporary Drug and Viral Pandemic Claims; Critical Thinking Questions
Description / Table of Contents:
SECTION 9 Critical Criminology, Culture of Control, Mass Incarceration
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Description based upon print version of record
