Social Control in Canada Issues in the Social Construction of Deviance

by Schissel, Bernard; Mahood, Linda

• ISBN13: 9780195409192
• ISBN10: 0195409191
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1996-10-24
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

This book focuses primarily on social control--society's tendency to identify and control the behavior of certain types of citizens-- framed within a social constructionist perspective based on several assumptions. The text focuses on five social categories --law, health, sexuality, race, and education--in which it discusses how definitions of unconventionality are formed and how they influence the control of certain categories of people.

Table of Contents

Introduction to Deviance and Social Control

Law and Social Control

Sexual Violence and Social Control

The Selective Control of Drugs

Youth Misconduct: Deviance and Social Control

Punishment and Control of Women in Prisons: The Punishment of Privation

Health and Social Change

Mental Illness - Tales of Madness: From the Asylum to Oprah

The Impact of Medicalization on Women

Medical Control and Women - The Body Perfect: Appearance Norms

Sexuality and Social Control

The Regulation of Prostitution: Springing the Morality Trap

Constructing Sexuality in the AIDS Era

Deconstructing Spousal Violence: A Socialist-Feminist Perspective

Race and Social Control

Social Control and the Historical Construction of Race

Native Canadian Deviance and the Social Control of Race

Youth Culture, Racism, and Alienation: The Control of Youth

Education and Social Control

The Hidden Curriculum

Campus Sex Crime, Journalism, and Social Control

Deviance and Discipline in the Classroom

Index

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