Deviance : social constructions and blurred boundaries
Record details
- ISBN: 9780520292376
- ISBN: 0520292375
- ISBN: 9780520965935
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Physical Description:
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xiv, 481 pages ; 24 cm - Publisher: Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2017]
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Views of deviance -- Getting close to deviance -- Positivistic theories of deviant behavior -- Symbolic interactionist/social constructionist perspective -- Murder -- Rape -- Financially-motivated crime in the streets -- White collar crime -- Alcohol abuse -- Durg abuse -- Sex work -- Mental illness -- Obesity and eating disorders -- LGBTQ Identities. |
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Subject: | Deviant behavior Criminal behavior Mental illness Social interaction Social ethics |
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- 1 of 1 copy available at Kirtland Community College.
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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Kirtland Community College Library | HM 811 .A53 2017 | 30775305540677 | General Collection | Available | - |
Deviance : Social Constructions and Blurred Boundaries
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Summary
Deviance : Social Constructions and Blurred Boundaries
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 deviance learn to analyze several kinds of criminal deviance that involve unwilling victims--such as murder, rape, street-level property crime, and white-collar crime learn to examine several categories of "lifestyle" and "status" deviance develop skills for critical analysis of criminal justice and social policies Overall, 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.