Deviant Behavior

ISBN-13: 9780367193171 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 416 str.

Erich Goode

Opis

Deviant Behavior advances both an objective and subjective view of deviance: how society defines and treats the deviant, and how the societally-defined deviant personally experiences this status and treatment. Clear and lively but rigorous, the book focuses on central principles and theories, yet is vivid with multiple examples and case studies.

Recenzje

Erich Goode is clearly a master when it comes to textbooks on deviance. This new edition presents a complete, comparative, and comprehensive view of what the sociology of deviance is all about, providing a definite positive reading and learning experience. Erich contextualizes a large number of illustrative cases with a thorough examination of the various theories and concepts that enable us a better comprehension of deviance within relevant sociological perceptions. Thus, readers are taken to an illuminating, engaging, and easy to read and understand tour-de-force of the multiple and various manifestations of deviance, and why they take place. This edition offers a text that is both rich in descriptions and analysis, suggesting many insights but most of all, it will make you think.
Nachman Ben-Yehuda, co-author of Fraud and Misconduct in Research; Professor of Sociology, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Spis treści

1. Introducing Deviance 2. Explaining Deviant Behavior 3. Constructing Deviance 4. Poverty and Disrepute 5. Crime and Criminalization 6. Criminal Behavior 7. White Collar, Corporate, and Global Malfeasance 8. Substance Abuse 9. Sexual Deviance 10. Unconventional Beliefs 11. Mental Disorder 12. Deviant Physical Characteristics 13. Tribal Stigma: Race, Religion, and Ethnicity

O autorze

Erich Goode is Sociology Professor Emeritus at Stony Brook University. He has taught at a half-dozen universities and is the author of twelve books, including The Taming of New York’s Washington Square and Drugs in American Society. Goode has received a Guggenheim Fellowship and several teaching awards. He lives in New York City, which provides ample strategic research sites for his interests.