Constructions of Deviance Social Power, Context, and Interaction

by Adler, Patricia A.; Adler, Peter

• ISBN13: 9781111186371
• ISBN10: 1111186375
• Edition: 7th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-02-09
• Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing

Summary

Packed with the most recent and relevant articles in the field, this textbook is the industry standard for publishing the most recent and relevant articles in the field of deviance, by showing students how to apply the concepts and theories of deviance the world around them.

The text's current, comprehensive coverage includes both theoretical analyses and ethnographic illustrations of how deviance is socially constructed, organized, and managed. Seasoned authors and award-winning professors, Patricia Adler and Peter Adler cover a wide variety of deviant acts--challenging you to see the diversity and pervasiveness of deviance in society. This textbook presents deviance as a component of society and examines the construction of deviance in terms of differential social power.

Its unique 'interactionist' or 'constructionist' perspective on deviance explores the processes in society that create deviance. Ethnographic in character, the authors' intriguing selected studies focus on the experiences of deviants, the deviant-making process, and the ways in which people labeled as deviant in society react to that label. The balanced selection of readings is timely and engaging, while in-depth introduction, explanation of theory, and discussion questions after each reading guide you through the fascinating material.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. xi
About the Editors	p. xvi
About the Contributors	p. xviii
General Introduction	p. 1
Defining Deviance	p. 11
On the Sociology of Deviance	p. 17
An Integrated Typology of Deviance Applied to Ten Middle-Class Norms	p. 25
Three Perspectives
Relativism: Labeling Theory	p. 41
The Morality of Deviance	p. 46
Social Power: Conflict Theory of Crime	p. 51
Theories of Deviance	p. 57
Functionalism: The Normal and the Pathological	p. 73
Social Structure and Anomie	p. 78
Differential Association	p. 85
Control Theory	p. 89
Feminist Theory	p. 98
The Constructionist Stance	p. 105
Studying Deviance	p. 109
Child Abuse Reporting	p. 115
Survey of Sexual Behavior of Americans	p. 122
Researching Dealers and Smugglers	p. 132
Constructing Deviance	p. 149
Moral Entrepreneurs: Campaigning
The Social Construction of Drug Scares	p. 159
Blowing Smoke: Status Politics and the Smoking Ban	p. 171
Failure to Launch: Why Do Some Social Issues Fail to Detonate Moral Panics?	p. 181
Differential Social Power: Labeling
Gender, Race, and Urban Policing	p. 189
Homophobia and Women's Sport	p. 200
The Mark of a Criminal Record	p. 211
Differential Social Power: Resisting Labeling
The Saints and the Roughnecks	p. 223
Doctors' Autonomy and Power	p. 237
Deviant Identity	p. 247
Identity Development
The Adoption and Management of a "Fat" Identity	p. 257
Becoming Bisexual	p. 268
Anorexia Nervosa and Bulimia	p. 279
Accounts
Convicted Rapists' Vocabulary of Motive	p. 291
The Devil Made Me Do It: Use of Neutralizations by Shoplifters	p. 308
Stigma Management
Men Who Cheer	p. 317
Negotiating White Power Activist Stigma	p. 331
Fitting In and Fighting Back: Homeless Kids' Stigma Management Strategies	p. 345
Collective Stigma Management and Shame: Avowal, Management, and Contestation	p. 361
The Social Organization of Deviance	p. 381
Loners
Drug Use and Disordered Eating Among College Women	p. 389
Online Communities
Cyber Communities of Self-Injury	p. 401
Subcultures
Cooks are Like Gods: Hierarchies in Methamphetamine-Producing Groups	p. 409
Gangs
Gender and Victimization Risk Among Young Women in Gangs	p. 419
Formal Organizations
International Organized Crime	p. 433
State-Corporate Crime
War Profiteering: Iraq and Halliburton	p. 446
Structure of the Deviant Act	p. 459
Individual
Autoerotic Sexual Asphyxia	p. 463
Cooperation
Trading Sex for Crack: Gender and Power	p. 475
Show Me the Money: Cybershrews and On-line Money Masochists	p. 485
Conflict
Sexual Assault on Campus	p. 494
Opportunity Structures for White-Collar Crime	p. 512
Deviant Careers	p. 521
Entering Deviance
Deciding to Commit a Burglary	p. 526
Managing Deviance
Gay Male Christian Couples and Sexual Exclusivity	p. 536
Career Stages
Pimp-Controlled Prostitution	p. 550
Exiting Deviance
Shifts and Oscillations in Upper-Level Drug Traffickers' Careers	p. 562
Obstacles to Exiting Emotional Disorder Identities	p. 575
References for the General and Part Introductions	p. 586
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