Deviance: The Interactionist Perspective

by Rubington, Earl S; Weinberg, Martin S.

• ISBN13: 9780205319084
• ISBN10: 0205319084
• Edition: 8th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-01-01
• Publisher: Allyn & Bacon

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
General Introduction	xiii
PART ONE THE SOCIAL DEVIANT	1	(108)
The Process of Social Typing	7	(16)
``Outsiders''	7	(4)
Howard S. Becker
``Careers in Deviance''	11	(10)
David F. Luckenbill
Joel Best
``Active Responses to Labeling''	21	(2)
Karolynn Siegel
Howard Lane
Ilan H. Meyer
The Cultural Context	23	(25)
``Gendered Rules on Alcohol Use''	23	(9)
Marja Holmila
``The Culture's Drug Addict Imagery''	32	(10)
Craig Reinarman
Ceres Duskin
``Labeling the Mentally Retarded''	42	(6)
Jane R. Mercer
Accommodation to Deviance	48	(33)
``How Women Experience Battering''	48	(10)
Kathleen J. Ferraro
John M. Johnson
``Accommodation to Madness''	58	(10)
Michael Lynch
``The Adjustment of the Family to Alcoholism''	68	(13)
Joan K. Jackson
The Role of Third Parties	81	(28)
``The Enforcement of College Alcohol Policy''	81	(10)
Earl Rubington
``Paranoia and the Dynamics of Exclusion''	91	(7)
Edwin M. Lemert
``'The Moral Career of the Mental Patient''	98	(11)
Erving Goffman
PART TWO THE FORMAL REGULATION OF DEVIANCE	109	(112)
Agencies and Their Theories	113	(41)
``Case Routinization in Investigative Police Work''	113	(12)
William B. Waegel
``Control Agents and the Creation of Deviant Types''	125	(14)
Kathryn J. Fox
``Experts on Battered Women''	139	(15)
Donileen R. Loseke
Spencer E. Cahill
Organizational Processing of Deviants	154	(39)
``Getting Rid of Troublemakers in High School''	154	(12)
Christine Bowditch
``Sexual Assault''	166	(12)
Lisa Frohmann
``Mental Illness Assumptions in Commitment Hearings''	178	(15)
James A. Holstein
The Effects of Contact with Control Agents	193	(28)
``'The Saints and the Roughnecks''	193	(10)
William J. Chambliss
``Legal Stigma''	203	(4)
Richard D. Schwartz
Jerome H. Skolnick
``The Positive Consequences of Stigma''	207	(14)
Nancy J. Herman
Charlene E. Miall
PART THREE RELATIONS AMONG DEVIANTS	221	(128)
The Social Organization of Deviants	225	(32)
``Types of Relationships''	225	(13)
Joel Best
David F. Luckenbill
``Capitalism and the Gay Subculture''	238	(6)
John D'Emilio
```Mixed Nutters,' `Looney Tuners,' and `Daffy Ducks'''	244	(13)
Nancy J. Herman
Getting Into Deviant Groups	257	(34)
``Becoming a Nudist''	257	(12)
Martin S. Weinberg
``Getting into Gangs''	269	(15)
Martin Sanchez Jankowski
``Getting into Porn''	284	(7)
Sharon A. Abbott
Learning the Norms	291	(25)
``The Nudist Management of Respectability''	291	(9)
Martin S. Weinberg
``Cruising for Sex in Public Places''	300	(10)
Richard Tewksbury
``Lesbians' Resistance to Culturally Defined Attractiveness''	310	(6)
Liahna Gordon
Social Diversity	316	(33)
``A Typology of Heroin Addicts''	316	(11)
Charles E. Faupel
``Outsiders in a Hearing World''	327	(10)
Paul C. Higgins
``Diversity in Panhandling''	337	(12)
Stephen E. Lankenau
PART FOUR DEVIANT IDENTITY	349
Acquiring a Deviant Identity	355
``Becoming Bisexual''	355
Martin S. Weinberg
Colin J. Williams
Douglas W. Pryor
``Getting a Tattoo''	363
Clinton R. Sanders
``Anorexia, Bulimia, and Developing a Deviant Identity''	375
Penelope A. McLorg
Diane E. Taub
Managing a Deviant Identity	384
``Stutterers' Practices''	384
Michael Petrunik
Clifford D. Shearing
``Stripteasers' Management of Their Deviant Identity''	396
Carol Rambo Ronai
Rabecca Cross
``Priests and Pedophilia''	409
James G. Thomson
Joseph A. Marolla
David G. Bromley
Transforming Deviant Identity	420
``Delabeling, Relabeling, and Alcoholics Anonymous''	420
Harrison M. Trice
Paul Michael Roman
``The Professional Ex-''	427
J. David Brown
``Medicalizing and Demedicalizing Hermaphroditism''	436
Martin S. Weinberg
Colin J. Williams
Bo Laurent