Social deviance / Stuart Henry and Lindsay M. Howard.
Material type: TextLanguage: English Series: Short introductionsPublication details: Cambridge ; Polity Press, © 2019.Edition: 2nd edDescription: xiii, 196 p. ; 24 cm. pbkISBN:- 9781509523511
- 9781509523504
- 302.542 23 HEN
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Earlier edition: 2009.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 169-183) and index.
1 What is deviance?
2 Why people ban behavior
3 What causes people to deviate? Theories of deviant behavior
4 Why people break rules: From extreme deviance to positive deviance
5 Neutralizing morality and deviant motivations
6 Failed socialization and weak social control
7 How people become deviants: Labeling deviant actors
8 Responding to deviant designations and coping with stigma
9 Becoming normal: The politics of stigma
Conclusion: What can the study of social deviance do for you?
The new edition of this popular introduction explores the meaning of social deviance in contemporary society. It traces the path by which we create deviance: how we single out behavior, ideas, and appearances that differ from the “norm,” label them as either offensive or acceptable, and then condemn or celebrate them. The book explains what kinds of behavior are banned and who bans them, exposing the important political influences underlying these processes. Refreshed with a new engaging, accessible style, the
second edition features expanded treatment of the theories of deviance, new material on positive deviance, and updated references and contemporary examples throughout.
At its core, Social Deviance looks at who becomes deviant and why. It delves into the multiple motives that cause rule-breakers to behave badly in the eyes of those they offend or creatively in the eyes of those they please, and it reveals the way deviants think about their actions, their moral identity, and their fellow moral outcasts.
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