Authors: Earl S Rubington, Martin S. Weinberg
ISBN-13: 9780205503711, ISBN-10: 0205503713
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Allyn & Bacon, Inc.
Date Published: July 2007
Edition: 10th Edition
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.
Preface | ||
General Introduction | ||
Pt. 1 | The Social Deviant | 1 |
Ch. 1 | The Process of Social Typing | 7 |
Outsiders | 7 | |
Careers in Deviance | 11 | |
Active Responses to Labeling | 21 | |
Ch. 2 | The Cultural Context | 23 |
Gendered Rules on Alcohol Use | 23 | |
The Culture's Drug Addict Imagery | 32 | |
Labeling the Mentally Retarded | 42 | |
Ch. 3 | Accommodation to Deviance | 48 |
How Women Experience Battering | 48 | |
Accommodation to Madness | 58 | |
The Adjustment of the Family to Alcoholism | 68 | |
Ch. 4 | The Role of Third Parties | 81 |
The Enforcement of College Alcohol Policy | 81 | |
Paranoia and the Dynamics of Exclusion | 91 | |
The Moral Career of the Mental Patient | 98 | |
Pt. 2 | The Formal Regulation of Deviance | 109 |
Ch. 5 | Agencies and their Theories | 113 |
Case Routinization in Investigative Police Work | 113 | |
Control Agents and the Creation of Deviant Types | 125 | |
Experts on Battered Women | 139 | |
Ch. 6 | Organizational Processing of Deviants | 154 |
Getting Rid of Troublemakers in High School | 154 | |
Sexual Assault | 166 | |
Mental Illness Assumptions in Commitment Hearings | 178 | |
Ch. 7 | The Effects of Contact with control Agents | 193 |
The Saints and the Roughnecks | 193 | |
Legal Stigma | 203 | |
The Positive Consequences of Stigma | 207 | |
Pt. 3 | Relations Among Deviants | 221 |
Ch. 8 | The Social Organization of Deviants | 225 |
Types of Relationships | 225 | |
Capitalism and the Gay Subculture | 238 | |
'Mixed Nutters,' 'Looney Tuners,' and 'Daffy Ducks' | 244 | |
Ch. 9 | Getting into Deviant Groups | 257 |
Becoming a Nudist | 257 | |
Getting into Gangs | 269 | |
Getting into Porn | 284 | |
Ch. 10 | Learning the Norms | 291 |
The Nudist Management of Respectability | 291 | |
Cruising for Sex in Public Places | 300 | |
Lesbians' Resistance to Culturally Defined Attractiveness | 310 | |
Ch. 11 | Social Diversity | 316 |
A Typology of Heroin Addicts | 316 | |
Outsiders in a Hearing World | 327 | |
Diversity in Panhandling | 337 | |
Pt. 4 | Deviant Identity | 349 |
Ch. 12 | Acquiring a Deviant Identity | 355 |
Becoming Bisexual | 355 | |
Getting a Tattoo | 363 | |
Anorexia, Bulimia, and Developing a Deviant Identity | 375 | |
Ch. 13 | Managing a Deviant Identity | 384 |
Stutterers' Practices | 384 | |
Stripteasers' Management of Their Deviant Identity | 396 | |
Priests and Pedophilia | 409 | |
Ch. 14 | Transforming Deviant Identity | 420 |
Delabeling, Relabeling, and Alcoholics Anonymous | 420 | |
The Professional Ex- | 427 | |
Medicalizing and Demedicalizing Hermaphroditism | 436 |