Deviance

Social Constructions and Blurred Boundaries

      NEW TO THIS EDITION:

·      Discussions of intersections of race and gender within deviance categories are strengthened, including profiling more minority activists.

·      Statistical updates have been made from the Uniform Crime Report, SAMHSA, NIMH, CDC and research polling from the Pew Research Center, Gallup, and others.

·      The new edition incorporates recent deviance scholarship, esp. deviance ethnographies and critical/constructionist theoretical analyses.

·       Contemporary developments in sociopolitical, legal, and medical contexts are integrated into substantive deviance chapters.

·       Feature-related Scholar and Claimsmaker Profiles are new in most chapters, focusing on recently active and compelling scholars and claimsmakers.

·       Blurred Boundaries vignettes and Pushing Your Boundaries assignments are updated to facilitate student discussions.

·       The impact and role(s) of the internet and social media on social constructions of deviance are addressed in more detail.

KEY FEATURES:

Blurred Boundary Vignettes at the start of chapters and Pushing Your Boundaries Assignments at the end of chapters provide wrap-round student engagement with key issues illustrating the blurred boundaries and the challenges of decision-making related to specific deviance categories and issues.

Pushing Your Boundaries Assignments ask students to engage with compelling issues in ways that facilitate students engagement, comprehension, and retention of key analytic issues.

Scholar and Claimsmaker Profiles provide vignettes of important current scholars (Ch 2-4) and claimsmakers (Ch 5-14), with special emphasis on recent minority claimsmakers.

Each substantive chapter provides a discussion of one or two positivistic theories of deviance to bolster students’ understanding of positivistic theories within a textbook that is broadly focused on social constructionist analysis.