Social Deviance

3rd Auflage
ISBN: 978-1-5095-6922-9
Verlag: Polity Press

Buch, Englisch, 304 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 576 g

This popular introductory text explores the meaning of social deviance in contemporary society. It carefully traces how we create deviance: how we single out some people's behavior, ideas, and appearances that differ from the "norm" and label them as offensive or acceptable. The book explains what kinds of behaviors are banned, who bans them, and why; exposing the political influences underlying these processes.

This third edition includes case studies in every chapter, ranging across issues such as marijuana legislation, sex work, cyber-extortion, mental illness, and obesity. This new edition includes two new chapters addressing the political dimensions of deviant behavior: labeling and stereotyping as methods of control, and the growing intolerance of deviance, particularly identity difference, in an age of global authoritarian populism.

At its core, Social Deviance looks at who becomes deviant and why. It delves into the multiple motives that cause rule-breakers to behave badly in the eyes of those they offend or creatively in the eyes of those they please, and it reveals the way deviants think about their actions, their moral identity, and their fellow moral outcasts.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Henry, Stuart

Howard, Lindsay M.

Fachgebiete

• Rechtswissenschaften Strafrecht Kriminologie, Strafverfolgung
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie Sozialpsychologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents

Preface

Introduction: Why Study Social Deviance?

Chapter 1: What is Deviance?

Chapter 2: Why People Ban Behavior

Chapter 3: What Causes People to Deviate? Theories of Deviant Behavior

Chapter 4: What Motivates People to Break Rules? From Extreme Deviance to Positive Deviance

Chapter 5: Neutralizing Morality: Words and Phrases as Vocabularies of Motive

Chapter 6: Failed Socialization and Weak Social Control

Chapter 7: How People Become Deviants: Labeling Deviant Actors

Chapter 8: Deviant Labels: Stigmatization and Coping with Stigma

Chapter 9: Becoming Normal or Becoming Liberated? Stigma Resistance and the Politics of Stigma

Chapter 10: Political Deviance

Chapter 11: From the Death of Deviance to the Death of Difference

Über Autor(innen)

Stuart Henry is Professor Emeritus in the School of Public Affairs at San Diego State University.

Lindsay M. Howard is an independent author.