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Deviance

Social Constructions and Blurred Boundaries
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Deviance: Social Constructions and Blurred Boundaries 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 learn to analyze several kinds of criminal deviance that involve unwilling victims—such as murder, rape, street-level property crime, and white-collar crime learn to examine several categories of “lifestyle” and “status” deviance 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. Instructor Resources are available to easily help with lecture and exam preparation. 

Author Biography:

Leon Anderson is Professor of Sociology at Utah State University. He is co-author of Down On Their Luck and Analyzing Social Settings, 4th Edition.
Release date NZ
August 22nd, 2017
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Audience
  • Professional & Vocational
Illustrations
14 halftones, 5 b-w line art,
Pages
496
Dimensions
191x235x25
ISBN-13
9780520292376
Product ID
26769000

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