Deviance (eBook)

Social Constructions and Blurred Boundaries

Leon Anderson (Autor)

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2024 | 2., Second Edition
496 Seiten
Sage Publications (Verlag)
978-1-0718-7668-8 (ISBN)

Infos

Deviance: Social Constructions and Blurred Boundaries is designed for courses on social deviance that take a strong sociological perspective. The book draws on up-to-date scholarship across a wide spectrum of deviance categories, providing a symbolic interactionist analysis of the deviance process. The book addresses positivistic theories of deviant behavior within a description of the deviance process that encompasses the work of deviance claims-makers, rule-breakers, and social control agents. Students are introduced to the sociology of deviance and learn to analyze several kinds of criminal deviance that involve unwilling victims-such as murder, rape, street-level property crime, and white-collar crime. Students also learn to examine several categories of "e;lifestyle"e; and "e;status"e; deviance and develop skills for critical analysis of criminal justice and social policies. Overall, students gain an understanding of the sociology of deviance through cross-cultural comparisons, historical overview of deviance in the U.S., and up-close analysis of the lived experience of those who are labeled deviant as well as responses to them in the U.S. today

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 27.3.2024
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Strafrecht ► Kriminologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: Crime • Deviance • lifestyle crime • social deviance • White Collar Crime
• ISBN-10: 1-0718-7668-6 / 1071876686
• ISBN-13: 978-1-0718-7668-8 / 9781071876688