Deviance: The Interactionist Perspective

by Rubington, Earl; Weinberg, Martin S.

• ISBN13: 9780205277803
• ISBN10: 0205277802
• Edition: 7th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-06-01
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Summary

This highly successful reader presents the interactionist approach to the study of deviance, examining deviance as a social phenomenon that consists of a set of interpretations and social reactions. The first half of the book (Parts I and II) deals with how people define some persons as deviant and act on the basis of these designations. The second half of the book (Parts III and IV) discusses the deviants themselves: how they respond to being typed by others, how they type themselves, and how deviant groups are formed. Readings new to the ninth edition include: Five new readings in Part I, "The Social Deviant," include the work of Heckert and Best, Cahill and Eggleston, Logan, Dellinger and Williams, and Kenney. Three new readings in Part III, "Relations among Deviants," include Miller, Anderson and Dabney, and Hollinger. Two new selections in Chapter 12, "Deviant Identity" highlight the contributions of McLorgand Taub, and Irwin.

Table of Contents

PREFACE	xi	(2)
GENERAL INTRODUCTION	xiii
PART ONE THE SOCIAL DEVIANT	1	(122)
CHAPTER 1 THE PROCESS OF SOCIAL TYPING	7	(23)
Howard S. Becker
"Outsiders"	7	(4)
David F. Luckenbill
Joel Best
"Careers in Deviance"	11	(10)
John I. Kitsuse
"Coming Out All Over"	21	(9)
CHAPTER 2 THE CULTURAL CONTEXT	30	(26)
Jane R. Mercer
"Labeling the Mentally Retarded"	30	(7)
Peter Conrad
"The Medicalization of Deviance"	37	(8)
Justin L. Tuggle
Malcolm D. Holmes
"Blowing Smoke and Status Politics"	45	(11)
CHAPTER 3 ACCOMMODATION TO DEVIANCE	56	(39)
Kathleen J. Ferraro
John M. Johnson
"How Women Experience Battering"	56	(12)
Michael Lynch
"Accommodation to Madness"	68	(13)
Joan K. Jackson
"The Adjustment of the Family to Alcoholism"	81	(14)
CHAPTER 4 THE ROLE OF THIRD PARTIES	95	(28)
Earl Rubington
"The Enforcement of College Alcohol Policy"	95	(10)
Edwin M. Lemert
"Paranoia and the Dynamics of Exclusion"	105	(7)
Erving Goffman
"The Moral Career of the Mental Patient"	112	(11)
PART TWO THE FORMAL REGULATION OF DEVIANCE	123	(102)
CHAPTER 5 TYPES OF FORMAL CONTROL	127	(19)
Malcolm Spector
"Different Methods of Control"	127	(19)
CHAPTER 6 AGENCIES AND THEIR THEORIES	146	(28)
William B. Waegel
"Case Routinization in Investigative Police Work"	146	(12)
Christine Bowditch
"Getting Rid of Troublemakers in High School"	158	(16)
CHAPTER 7 THE DEVIANT IN COURT	174	(28)
Lisa Frohmann
"Sexual Assault"	174	(13)
James A. Holstein
"Mental Illness Assumptions in Commitment Hearings"	187	(15)
CHAPTER 8 THE EFFECTS OF CONTACT WITH CONTROL AGENTS	202	(23)
D. L. Rosenhan
"Being Sane in Insane Places"	202	(8)
William J. Chambliss
"The Saints and the Roughnecks"	210	(10)
Richard D. Schwartz
Jerome H. Skolnick
"Legal Stigma"	220	(5)
PART THREE RELATIONS AMONG DEVIANTS	225	(120)
CHAPTER 9 THE SOCIAL ORGANIZATION OF DEVIANTS	229	(32)
Joel Best
David F. Luckenbill
"Types of Relationships"	229	(13)
John D'Emilio
"Capitalism and the Gay Subculture"	242	(6)
Nancy J. Herman
"`Mixed Nutters,' 'Looney Tuners,' and 'Daffy Ducks'"	248	(13)
CHAPTER 10 GETTING INTO DEVIANT GROUPS	261	(32)
Martin S. Weinberg
"Becoming a Nudist"	261	(12)
Martin Sanchez Jankowski
"Getting into Gangs"	273	(14)
John Lofland
"Conversion to the Doomsday Cult"	287	(6)
CHAPTER 11 LEARNING THE NORMS	293	(29)
Barbara Sherman Heyl
"The Training of House Prostitutes"	293	(8)
Martin S. Weinberg
"The Nudist Management of Respectability"	301	(9)
Richard Tewksbury
"Cruising for Sex in Public Places"	310	(12)
CHAPTER 12 SOCIAL DIVERSITY	322	(23)
Charles E. Faupel
"A Typology of Heroin Addicts"	322	(12)
Paul C. Higgins
"Outsiders in a Hearing World"	334	(11)
PART FOUR DEVIANT IDENTITY	345
CHAPTER 13 ACQUIRING A DEVIANT IDENTITY	351	(39)
Martin S. Weinberg
Colin J. Williams
Douglas W. Pryor
"Becoming Bisexual"	351	(8)
Clinton R. Sanders
"Getting a Tattoo"	359	(14)
Sheigla Murphy
Dan Waldorf
Craig Reinarman
"Drifting into Cocaine Dealing"	373	(17)
CHAPTER 14 MANAGING DEVIANT IDENTITY	390	(27)
Michael Petrunik
Clifford D. Shearing
"Stutterers' Practices"	390	(12)
Diana Scully
Joseph Marolla
"Rapists' Vocabulary of Motives"	402	(15)
CHAPTER 15 TRANSFORMING DEVIANT IDENTITY	417
Harrison M. Trice
Paul Michael Roman
"Delabeling, Relabeling, and Alcoholics Anonymous"	417	(7)
J. David Brown
"The Professional Ex-"	424	(9)
Martin S. Weinberg
Colin J. Williams
Bo Laurent
"Medicalizing and Demedicalizing Hermaphroditism"	433