Deviant Behavior

by Goode, Erich

• ISBN13: 9780130825780
• ISBN10: 0130825786
• Edition: 6th
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-01-01
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Summary

For Junior and Senior courses in Deviance, Social Deviance, and Deviant Behavior. The author seeks to understand deviance from the major sociological perspectives and theories of deviance by providing a comprehensive, balanced examination of the conceptual foundation of the sociology of deviance. Throughout the text, Goode imparts a practical knowledge towards real-world matters that enables students to think clearly about them.

Table of Contents

Preface	ix
Introduction	1	(18)
Summary	13	(4)
Personal Account: Cheating as a Way of Life	14	(3)
Appendix	17	(2)
What Is Deviance?	19	(27)
Four Naive, Misleading Definitions of Deviance	20	(4)
Two Fruitful (Although Flawed) Definitions of Deviance	24	(5)
A Modest Resolution of the Dilemma	29	(2)
The Mental Experiment	31	(1)
The Nature and Locus of Deviance	32	(1)
Deviance and Crime: A Rough Division of Labor	33	(2)
Deviance and Relativity	35	(2)
Summary	37	(6)
Personal Account: Prostitution	40	(3)
Appendix	43	(3)
What is to be Explained? Two Approaches to Deviance	46	(31)
What is to Be Explained?	47	(4)
Macro-Level versus Micro-Level Perspectives	51	(1)
Positivist or Explanatory Theories of Deviance: An Introduction	51	(3)
Constructionist Approaches to Deviance: An Introduction	54	(4)
Positivism: Explaining Deviant Behavior	58	(2)
Constructionism Critiques Positivism	60	(2)
Some Central Concepts of Constructionism	62	(9)
The Social Construction of a Category: Have You Had Sex?	70	(1)
Summary	71	(6)
Personal Account: Deviant Behavior versus Judgments of Deviance	72	(5)
Explaining Deviant Behavior: Positivist Theories	77	(29)
Free Will and Rational Calculation	79	(1)
The Positive School	80	(1)
Social Disorganization and the Chicago School	81	(4)
Anomie or Strain Theory	85	(8)
Differential Association: Learning Theory	93	(3)
Social Control Theory	96	(2)
A General Theory of Crime: Self-Control Theory	98	(2)
Summary	100	(6)
Personal Account: Employee Theft	103	(3)
Constructionist Theories of Deviance	106	(25)
Functionalism	107	(4)
Labeling or Interactionist Theory	111	(9)
Conflict Theory	120	(4)
Feminism	124	(3)
Summary	127	(4)
Personal Account: Dialogue about Deviance with a Born-Again Christian	129	(2)
Criminal Behavior	131	(38)
Deviance and Crime	133	(2)
Murder	135	(5)
Forcible Rape	140	(4)
Robbery	144	(4)
White-Collar Crime	148	(14)
Summary	162	(7)
Personal Account: Shoplifting and Personal Thievery	164	(5)
Drug Use as Deviant Behavior	169	(39)
Drug Use: The Construction of a Social Problem	171	(3)
Imprisonment on Drug Charges, 1979-2000	173	(1)
What Is Drug Use?	174	(1)
A Classification of Drugs and Their Effects	175	(2)
The Extent of Drug Use in the United States	177	(4)
Marijuana	181	(10)
A Conflict Theory of Drug Abuse and Its Devastation	182	(9)
Hallucinogenic Drugs	191	(3)
Cocaine and Crack	194	(4)
Heroin and the Narcotics	198	(4)
Summary	202	(6)
Personal Account: Drug Use	204	(4)
Legal Drugs: The Use of Alcohol and Tobacco	208	(29)
Are Alcohol and Tobacco Drugs?	209	(1)
Are Alcohol and Tobacco Consumption Deviant?	209	(2)
Alcohol	211	(15)
Drugs: Myth and Reality	219	(7)
Tobacco	226	(5)
Summary	231	(6)
Personal Account: My Experiences with Alcohol	234	(3)
Heterosexual Deviance	237	(36)
Essentialism versus Constructionism	238	(3)
Gendering Sexuality	241	(2)
Sexual Behavior and Custom around the World	243	(4)
A Major Nationally Representative Sex Survey	247	(4)
What's Sexually Deviant? The ``Sex in America Survey''	250	(1)
What Constitutes Sexual Deviance?	251	(5)
Sexual Disorders versus Sexual Deviance	252	(4)
Sex Work	256	(3)
Teenage Sex	259	(4)
Sex in America: Masturbation and Erotica	260	(3)
Extramarital Sex	263	(2)
Summary	265	(8)
Personal Account: Working in a Strip Club	268	(5)
Male and Female Homosexuality	273	(34)
Homosexuality: Essentialism versus Constructionism	275	(4)
Ritual Homosexuality among the Sambia of New Guinea	277	(2)
How Many Homosexuals Are There? A Recent Survey	279	(1)
The World of Homosexuality: Some Recent Developments	280	(5)
Homosexuality as Deviance	285	(5)
Homosexuality as Deviance: Some Ambiguities	290	(4)
What Is Homophobia?	291	(3)
Homosexuality and AIDS	294	(4)
Male Homosexual Behavior and the Risk of AIDS	298	(2)
Summary	300	(7)
Personal Account: My Sexual Odyssey, 1985-1995	302	(5)
Physical Characteristics as Deviance	307	(30)
Abominations of the Body: An Introduction	310	(2)
Physical Disability	312	(2)
Conformity to and Violations of Aesthetic Standards	314	(3)
Tattooting as Physical Deviance	317	(1)
Obesity	318	(4)
Are the Overweight Universally Stigmatized? Black-White Differences	321	(1)
Intersexuality	322	(4)
Freaks	326	(1)
Summary	327	(10)
Personal Account: Writing about Disability with a Disability	330	(1)
Personal Account: Interview with an Officer in a Fat Civil Rights Group	331	(6)
Cognitive Deviance	337	(32)
The Social Functions of Belief Systems	340	(2)
Religious Deviance	342	(7)
Parapsychology	349	(7)
UFOs Are Real: The Roswell Incident	356	(3)
Urban Legends in the African American Community	359	(2)
Summary	361	(8)
Personal Account: What I Believe	363	(6)
Mental Illness	369	(36)
What Is Mental Illness? What Is Mental Disorder?	371	(6)
Some Common Mental Disorders Listed in DSM-IV	374	(3)
Models of Mental Disorder	377	(10)
Families of the Mentally Disordered: Labeling by Intimates	387	(2)
The Epidemiology of Mental Illness	389	(6)
On Being Sane in Insane Places	390	(5)
Chemical Treatment of Mental Disorder	395	(3)
Deinstitutionalization	397	(1)
Deviance and Mental Disorder: An Overview	398	(1)
Summary	399	(6)
Personal Account: Mental Illness in the Family	401	(4)
Ideological, Ethical, and Moral Implications of Studying Deviance	405	(11)
References	416	(34)
Photo Credits	450	(1)
Indexes	451