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Deviance
Social Constructions and Blurred Boundaries

Second Edition


April 2024 | 496 pages | SAGE Publications, Inc
Deviance: Social Constructions and Blurred Boundaries is designed for courses on social deviance that take a strong sociological perspective. The book draws on up-to-date scholarship across a wide spectrum of deviance categories, providing a symbolic interactionist analysis of the deviance process. The book addresses positivistic theories of deviant behavior within a description of the deviance process that encompasses the work of deviance claims-makers, rule-breakers, and social control agents. Students are introduced to the sociology of deviance and learn to analyze several kinds of criminal deviance that involve unwilling victims-such as murder, rape, street-level property crime, and white-collar crime. Students also learn to examine several categories of "lifestyle" and "status" deviance and develop skills for critical analysis of criminal justice and social policies. Overall, students gain an understanding of the sociology of deviance through cross-cultural comparisons, historical overview of deviance in the U.S., and up-close analysis of the lived experience of those who are labeled deviant as well as responses to them in the U.S. today

 
Section 1: Theories and Methods in Deviance Studies
 
Chapter 1: Views of Deviance
 
Chapter 2: Getting Close to Deviance
 
Chapter 3: Positivistic Theories of Deviant Behavior
 
Chapter 4: Symbolic Interactionist/Social Constructionist Perspective
 
Section 2: High Consensus Criminal Deviance
 
Chapter 5: Murder
 
Chapter 6: Rape
 
Chapter 7: Financially Motivated Crime in the Streets
 
Chapter 8: White-Collar Crime
 
Section 3: Lifestyle Deviance
 
Chapter 9: Alcohol Abuse
 
Chapter 10: Drug Abuse
 
Chapter 11: Sex Work
 
Section 4: Status Deviance
 
Chapter 12: Mental Illness
 
Chapter 13: Obesity and Eating Disorders
 
Chapter 14: LGBTQ Identities

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Key features

      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.

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