Constructions of deviance
Subtitle: social power, context, and interaction
By: [edited by] Patricia A. Adler, Peter Adler
Edition: 7th ed.
Publisher: Wadsworth, Cengage Learning; Wadsworth Publishing; Brand: Cengage Learning
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Australia; Belmont, CA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 588
ISBN-13: 9781111186371
Subjects: Deviant behavior; Social interaction
Description: Packed with the most recent and relevant articles in the field, CONSTRUCTIONS OF DEVIANCE: SOCIAL POWER, CONTEXT, AND INTERACTION, Seventh Edition, shows you how to apply the concepts and theories of deviance to the world around you. The text's current, comprehensive coverage includes both theoretical analyses and ethnographic illustrations of how deviance is socially constructed, organized, and managed. Seasoned authors and award-winning professors, Patricia Adler and Peter Adler cover a wide variety of deviant acts--challenging you to see the diversity and pervasiveness of deviance in society. The text presents deviance as a component of society and examines the construction of deviance in terms of differential social power. Its unique "interactionist" or "constructionist" perspective on deviance explores the processes in society that create deviance. Ethnographic in character, the authors' intriguing selected studies focus on the experiences of deviants, the deviant-making process, and the ways in which people labeled as deviant in society react to that label. The balanced selection of readings is timely and engaging, while in-depth introduction, explanation of theory, and discussion questions after each reading guide you through the fascinating material. -- Book Description.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 586-588).
Table of contents: title: Defining deviance; title: Theories of deviance; title: Studying deviance; title: Constructing deviance. Moral entrepreneurs : campaigning ; Differential social power : labeling ; Differential social power : resisting labeling; title: Deviant identity. Identity development ; Accounts ; Stigma management; title: The social organization of deviance. Loners ; Online communities ; Subcultures ; Gangs ; Formal organizations ; State-corporate crime; title: Structure of the deviant act. Individual ; Cooperation ; Conflict; title: Deviant careers. Entering deviance ; Managing deviance ; Career stages ; Exiting deviance.