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Deviant Behavior

by: Goode, Erich

Deviant Behavior

by: Goode, Erich

ISBN 13:
9780130825780
ISBN 10:
0130825786
Edition: 6th
Format: Hardcover
Copyright: 01/01/2001
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
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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.

Preface

Introduction

(18)

Summary

(4)

Personal Account: Cheating as a Way of Life

(3)

Appendix

(2)

What Is Deviance?

(27)

Four Naive, Misleading Definitions of Deviance

(4)

Two Fruitful (Although Flawed) Definitions of Deviance

(5)

A Modest Resolution of the Dilemma

(2)

The Mental Experiment

(1)

The Nature and Locus of Deviance

(1)

Deviance and Crime: A Rough Division of Labor

(2)

Deviance and Relativity

(2)

Summary

(6)

Personal Account: Prostitution

(3)

Appendix

(3)

What is to be Explained? Two Approaches to Deviance

(31)

What is to Be Explained?

(4)

Macro-Level versus Micro-Level Perspectives

(1)

Positivist or Explanatory Theories of Deviance: An Introduction

(3)

Constructionist Approaches to Deviance: An Introduction

(4)

Positivism: Explaining Deviant Behavior

(2)

Constructionism Critiques Positivism

(2)

Some Central Concepts of Constructionism

(9)

The Social Construction of a Category: Have You Had Sex?

(1)

Summary

(6)

Personal Account: Deviant Behavior versus Judgments of Deviance

(5)

Explaining Deviant Behavior: Positivist Theories

(29)

Free Will and Rational Calculation

(1)

The Positive School

(1)

Social Disorganization and the Chicago School

(4)

Anomie or Strain Theory

(8)

Differential Association: Learning Theory

(3)

Social Control Theory

(2)

A General Theory of Crime: Self-Control Theory

(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

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