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Social Deviance Henry N. Pontell

Social Deviance By Henry N. Pontell

Social Deviance by Henry N. Pontell


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Useful for undergraduate courses in Deviance Theory, Social Deviance, and Deviance and Society, this book is a collection of classic and contemporary readings in social deviance. It also provides an overview of theories, concepts and research.

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Social Deviance: Readings in Theory and Research by Henry N. Pontell

Appropriate for undergraduate courses in Deviance Theory, Social Deviance, and Deviance and Society. This collection of classic and contemporary readings in social deviance provides a balanced overview of theories, concepts and research. It can serve as either a stand-alone reader or a supplement to a major text. While the author's original objectives and format remain, the Third Edition contains a number of enhancements that build upon the strengths of the original work.

Table of Contents

(Note: New readings are bolded.)

I. INTRODUCTION.

1. Moral Entrepreneurs: The Creation and Enforcement of Deviant Categories, Howard S. Becker.
2. Ironies of Social Control: Authorities as Contributors to Deviance Through Escalation, Nonenforcement, and Covert Facilitation, Gary T. Marx.
3. The "Discovery" of Child Abuse, Stephen J. Pfohl.

II. THEORIES.

Functionalism and Anomie.
4. The Normal and the Pathological, Emile Durkheim.5. Social Structure and Anomie, Robert K. Merton.6. Illegitimate Means and Delinquent Subcultures, Richard A. Cloward and Lloyd E. Ohlin.Symbolic Interactionism/Labeling.
7. The Social Self, Charles Horton Cooley.8. Primary and Secondary Deviation, Edwin M. Lemert.9. Stigma and Social Identity, Erving Goffman.10. Deviance on Record: Techniques for Labeling Child Abusers in Official Documents , Leslie Margolin.11. On Behalf of Labeling Theory, Erich Goode.Conflict Theory.
12. Toward a Marxian Theory of Deviance, Steven Spitzer.13. Radical Criminology: An Explication, Robert M. Bohm.14. The Poverty of the Sociology of Deviance: Nuts, Sluts, and Perverts, Alexander Liazos.Learning.
15. Techniques of Neutralization: A Theory of Delinquency, Gresham M. Sykes and David Matza.16. Becoming a Marihuana User, Howard S. Becker.17. Differential Association, Edwin H. Sutherland.18. Differential Identification, Daniel Glaser.Feminism.
19. Girls' Crime and Woman's Place: Toward a Feminist Model of Female Delinquency, Meda Chesney-Lind.20. Rejecting "Femininity": Some Research Notes on Gender Identity Development in Lesbians, Margaret Cooper.21. On the Backs of Working Prostitutes: Feminist Theory and Prostitution Policy , Annette Jolin.22. Appearance and Delinquency: A Research Note, Jill Leslie Rosenbaum and Meda Chesney-Lind.23. Identity, Strategy, and Feminist Politics: Clemency for Battered Women Who Kill , Patricia Gagne.

III. DEVIANT BEHAVIORS.

Alcohol and Drug Use.
24. Moral Passage: The Symbolic Process in Public Designations of Deviance, Joseph R. Gusfield.25. Marihuana Use and Social Control, Howard S. Becker.26. Deviance as a Situated Phenomenon: Variations in the Social Interpretation of Marijuana and Alcohol Use, James D. Orcutt.27. Gender, Power, and Alternative Living Arrangements in the Inner-City Crack Culture , Lisa Maher, Eloise Dunlap, Bruce D. Johnson, Ansley Hamid.Sexual Deviance.
28. The Madam as Teacher: The Training of House Prostitutes, Barbara Sherman Heyl.29. Tearoom Trade, Laud Humphreys.30. Convicted Rapists' Vocabulary of Motive: Excuses and Justifications, Diana Scully and Joseph Marolla.31. Topless Dancers: Managing Stigma in a Deviant Occupation, William E. Thompson and Jackie L. Harred.32. Deviance as History: The Future of Perversion , William Simon.Common Crime and Social Control.
33. The Function of Humor for Prison Inmates , Charles M. Terry.34. Incarceration as a Deviant Form of Social Control, Henry N. Pontell and Wayne N. Welsh.35. The Behavior of the Systematic Check Forger, Edwin M. Lemert.36. Normal Crimes: Sociological Features of the Penal Code in a Public Defender Office, David Sudnow.White-Collar Crime and Corporate Crime.
37. Is "White-Collar Crime" Crime?, Edwin H. Sutherland.38. Medical Criminals: Physician Fraud in Medicaid, Paul Jesilow, Henry N. Pontell, and Gilbert Geis.39. White-Collar Crime in the Savings and Loan Scandal , Henry N. Pontell and Kity Calavita.40. Denying the Guilty Mind: Accounting for Involvement in a White-Collar Crime, Michael L. Benson.41. Computer Crime: Hackers, Phreaks, and Cyberpunks, Stephen M. Rosoff, Henry N. Pontell, and Robert Tillman.Mental Disorder.
42. On Being Sane in Insane Places, D.L. Rosenhan.43. The Moral Career of the Mental Patient, Erving Goffman.44. From Witchcraft to Drugcraft: Biochemistry as Mythology, Ronny E. Turner and Charles Edgley.

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CIN0136747140G
9780136747147
0136747140
Social Deviance: Readings in Theory and Research by Henry N. Pontell
Used - Good
Paperback
Pearson Education (US)
1998-08-20
447
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