RT Book
T1 Deviance: social constructions and blurred boundaries
A1 Anderson, Leon 1950-
LA English
PP Oakland, California
PB University of California Press
YR 2017
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/880158956
AB "This sociology of deviance textbook draws on up-to-date scholarship across a spectrum of deviance categories, providing a symbolic interactionist analysis of the deviance process. The book addresses positivistic theories of deviant behavior within a more encompassing description of the deviance process that includes the work of deviance claims-makers, rule-breakers, and social control agents. Cross-cultural and historical treatment of deviance categories provides background for understanding current conceptions of, and responses to, deviance. The book is divided into four parts. Section One introduces students to the sociology of deviance. A sociological approach to deviance is contrasted with popular views of deviants as demonic, mentally ill, and culturally exotic. Sociological methods for studying deviance are described, with particular emphasis on deviance ethnography. Classic positivistic theories of deviant behavior are presented with critique and discussion of revised formulations of the theories. The symbolic interactionist/constructionist approach is presented as a recursive set of processes involving deviance claims-making by moral entrepreneurs, rule-breaking, actions of social control, and stigma management and resistance by those labelled as deviant. Section Two focuses on high consensus criminal deviance, with chapters on murder, rape, street-level property crime, and white collar crime. Chapters in Section Three addresses various forms of lifestyle deviance, including alcohol abuse, drug abuse, and sex work. Section Four examines three categories of status deviance: mental illness, obesity and eating disorders, and LGBTQ identities."--Provided by publisher
AB 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
NO Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 451-467 und Index
CN HM811
SN 9780520292376
K1 Deviant Behavior
K1 Criminal Behavior
K1 Mental Illness
K1 Social Interaction
K1 Social Ethics
K1 Abweichendes Verhalten : Kriminalität : Psychische Störung : Sozialverhalten : Soziale Norm