Social Deviance

by Kaplan, Howard B.; Johnson, Robert J.

• ISBN13: 9780306466106
• ISBN10: 0306466104
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-11-01
• Publisher: Plenum Pub Corp

Summary

The authors surveyed over 9,000 seventh grade students in the Houston Independent School District up to three times during their junior high school years and once as young adults between 1971 and 1980. Drawing on the extensive data gathered from this longitudinal survey, Kaplan and Johnson develop and test a comprehensive theoretical statement about the social and social psychological processes involved in the onset and course of deviant behavior.

Table of Contents

PART I. THEORETICAL AND METHODOLOGICAL APPROACHES TO THE STUDY OF DEVIANT BEHAVIOR
Toward a General Theory of Deviant Behavior	3	(22)
The Nature of Deviance	3	(3)
Motivation to Commit Deviant Acts that Violate Membership Group Norms	6	(3)
Motivation to Commit Deviant Acts that Conform to Membership Group Norms	9	(1)
Acting Out Deviant Dispositions	10	(7)
Continuity of Deviant Behavior	17	(8)
Method	25	(16)
Sample and Data Collection	25	(1)
Analysis	26	(1)
Measurement Model	26	(4)
Structural Model	30	(6)
Subgroup Comparisons	36	(5)
PART II. DEVIANT BEHAVIOR IN ADOLESCENCE
An Elaboration Strategy for the Study of Deviant Behavior	41	(82)
Model I: Self-Rejection in the Explanation of Deviance	43	(4)
Model II: Continuity of Early Deviance	47	(6)
Methods	53	(5)
Results	58	(5)
Discussion of Models I and II	63	(3)
Model III: Deviant Peer Associations and Deviant Behavior	66	(1)
Theory	67	(6)
Methods	73	(2)
Results	75	(4)
Discussion of Model III	79	(7)
Conclusion	86	(1)
Model IV: Negative Social Sanctions from the Labeling Perspective	87	(1)
Empirical Support	88	(1)
Theoretical Issues	89	(7)
Elaborating a Model of Deviant Behavior	96	(4)
Method	100	(3)
Results	103	(5)
Discussion of Model IV	108	(11)
Appendix	119	(4)
Gender as a Moderator in Explanations of Adolescent Deviance	123	(26)
Gender and Deviance: A Critique of the Literature	124	(3)
Theoretical Model	127	(8)
Method	135	(1)
Results	136	(9)
Discussion	145	(4)
Multigroup Analysis of the General Theory of Deviant Behavior: Three-Wave Panel Analysis by Race	149	(24)
Race/Ethnicity and Deviance: A Critique of the Literature	149	(4)
Method	153	(1)
Results	154	(11)
Discussion	165	(8)
PART III. DEVIANT BEHAVIOR FROM ADOLESCENCE TO YOUNG ADULTHOOD
Deviance from Adolescence to Young Adulthood: The Experience of White-Anglo Adolescents	173	(10)
Method	173	(1)
Results	174	(5)
Discussion	179	(4)
Deviance and Gender: Adolescence to Young Adulthood	183	(18)
Method	183	(1)
Results	184	(6)
Discussion	190	(11)
PART IV. SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS
The Study of Deviant Behavior: Retrospect and Prospect	201	(14)
Summary and Evaluation	201	(6)
Building on Past Studies	207	(8)
References	215	(6)
Index	221