Social deviance /
"This engaging introduction explores the meaning of social deviance in contemporary society, form criminal activity to alternative lifestyle choices. Stuart Henry traces the path by which we create deviance: how we single out behavior and appearances that differ from the "norm," label...
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| Language: | English |
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Cambridge :
Polity,
2009
Cambridge ; Malden, MA : 2009 Cambridge, UK ; Malden, MA : 2009 Cambridge : 2009 |
| Series: | Short introductions
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Table of Contents:
- Chapter 1: What is Deviance?
- Chapter 2: Why People Ban Behavior
- Chapter 3: Why Some People Break Rules: From Extreme to Mundane Deviance
- Chapter 4: Neutralizing Morality and Deviant Motivations
- Chapter 5: How People Become Deviants
- Chapter 6: Responding to Deviant Designations and Coping with Stigma
- Chapter 7: Becoming Normal: The Politics of Stigma
- 1 What is deviance?
- 2. Why people ban behavior
- 3. Why some people break rules: from extreme to mundane deviance
- 4. Neutralizing morality and deviant motivations
- 5. How people become deviants
- 6. Responding to deviant designations and coping with stigma
- 7. Becoming normal: the politics of stigma
- Conclusion: what can studying social deviance do for you?