Deviance The Interactionist Perspective

by Rubington, Earl; Weinberg, Martin

• ISBN13: 9780205503711
• ISBN10: 0205503713
• Edition: 10th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-07-17
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

This highly successful reader presents the interactionist approach to the study of deviance, examining deviance as a phenomenon that is constituted through social interpretations and the reactions of persons caught up in this social process. This book focuses on issues such as how individuals interpret and label people, how people relate to one another based on these interpretations, and the consequences of these social processes. This perspective helps students understand both social process in general and the sociology of deviance in particular.

Author Biography

    Earl S Rubington, Northeastern University
    Martin S. Weinberg, Indiana University

Table of Contents

Preface

General Introduction

The Social Deviant

The Process of Social Typing

Outsiders

Heckert and Amy Best,ldquo;Redheads as Deviant Types

Wheelchair Users.rdquo;

The Cultural Context

Labeling the Mentally Retarded

Fecal Mattersrdquo

The Labeling of Sexual Harassment

Accommodation to Deviance

How Women Experience Battering

Accommodation to Madness

When Accommodation Breaks Down

The Role of Third Parties

The Enforcement of College Alcohol Policy

Paranoia and the Dynamics of Exclusion

The Moral Career of the Mental Patient

The Formal Regulation Of Deviance

Agencies and Their Theories

Case Routinization in Investigative Police Work

Control Agents and the Creation of Deviant Types

Experts on Battered Women

Organizational Processing of Deviants

Discipline in an Urban High School

Sexual Assault

Mental Illness Assumptions in Commitment Hearings

The Effects of Contact with Control Agents

The Saints and the Roughnecks

Medical Diagnosis and the Reinforcement of Deviant Labels

The Positive Consequences of Stigma

Relations Among Deviants

The Social Organization of Deviants

Types of Relationships

Self-Injurers as Lonersrdquo

Collegiate Rugby and Subcultural Deviancerdquo

Getting into Deviant Groups

Becoming a Nudist

Jank

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