The Deviance ProcessTransaction Publishers - 281 pages Unlike texts that view deviance as an â essence,â independent of the mind of the observer, Pfuhl and Henry perceive deviance, and its opposite, â normality,â as impermanent, human creations, resulting from people interacting with one anotherâ the outcome of the antagonisms, contradictions and conflicts in society. The perspective used is identified as social constructionist: one that includes elements of interactionsts and phenomenological sociology. This thoroughly revised and updated text offers students a study of deviance from a perspective that will correspond to their everyday experience. |
Contents
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A Social | 3 |
Constructing Social Reality | 14 |
Multiple Realities and Problematic Meanings | 20 |
Deviance as Social Reality | 22 |
Summary | 24 |
Notes | 25 |
Introduction | 27 |
Retrospective Interpretation | 135 |
The Status Degradation Ceremony | 139 |
The Juvenile Court | 142 |
The Case of Total Institutions | 146 |
Resistance to Labeling | 149 |
Summary | 154 |
Notes | 155 |
Introduction | 157 |
The Social Construction of Official Statistics | 29 |
Summary | 45 |
Notes | 47 |
Introduction | 49 |
Effective Environment Biography and Behavior | 53 |
Biography Affinity and Willingness | 55 |
Willingness and the Neutralization of Moral Constraints | 61 |
Willingness and Values | 70 |
Turning OnTurning Off | 74 |
The Question of Motives | 77 |
RuleBreaking as Negotiated | 82 |
Summary | 83 |
Notes | 84 |
Introduction | 85 |
Instrumental and Symbolic Goals | 88 |
Moral Conversion | 91 |
Myths Legends and Truth | 98 |
Alliances | 104 |
Power | 107 |
Summary | 117 |
Notes | 118 |
Introduction | 121 |
Stereotypy | 125 |
Institutionalizing Deviance | 131 |
Theory | 158 |
Practicalities | 164 |
Stigma and the Primary Deviant | 169 |
Social Consequences of Stigma | 174 |
Deviance Amplification | 179 |
Resolving the Pros and Cons | 182 |
Summary | 187 |
Notes | 188 |
Introduction | 189 |
Purification and Transcendence | 196 |
Summary | 204 |
Notes | 205 |
Introduction | 207 |
The Dynamics of Mutual and Groups | 213 |
The Deviant as Moral Entrepreneur | 218 |
Deviance as Politics | 226 |
Summary | 232 |
Notes | 233 |
Epilogue | 235 |
Bibliography | 239 |
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Page 245 - Notes on the Sociology of Deviance," pp. 9-21 in HS Becker (ed.) The Other Side: Perspectives on Deviance. New York: Free Press.