Deviance: Social Constructions and Blurred Boundaries

by Leon Anderson

Social Constructions and Blurred Boundaries 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.



are introduced to the sociology of deviance
learn to analyze several kinds of criminal deviance that involve unwilling victims--such as murder, rape, street-level property crime, and white-collar crime
learn to examine several categories of "lifestyle" and "status" deviance
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.

Instructor Resources are available to easily help with lecture and exam preparation.

497 pages, Kindle Edition

Published August 22, 2017

Reviews

[Ali · Rating 4 out of 5]

This was a very educational textbook, and very easy to read! I love my social deviance class that this textbook was required for. I learned a lot of stuff about subjects that I already thought I knew most the information about. kept my interest and didn't drag like most textbook, which is a huge accomplishment in and of itself. my favorite text book to date.