Are "deviant" and "criminal" behaviors inherently wrong or evil? Taking an innovative cross-cultural approach, Deviance Across Cultures: Constructions of Difference, Second Edition, spans the globe to give instructors and students an invaluable - and affordable - resource for investigating the
social construction of deviance. From studies on sex and drugs to examinations of religious and corporate deviance, this anthology responds to the growing need for global learning in deviance studies.
Part I: Explaining Deviance
1. Emile Durkheim: The Normal and the Pathological
2. Kai T. Erikson: On the Sociology of Deviance
3. Robert K. Merton: Social Structure and Anomie
4. Gresham M. Sykes and David Matza: Techniques of Neutralization
5. Travis Hirschi: A Control
Theory of Delinquency
6. Jack P. Gibbs: Conceptions of Deviant Behavior: The Old and the New
7. Frank Tannenbaum: Definition and the Dramatization of Evil
8. Jeffrey S. Victor: The Search for Scapegoat Deviants
9. Willem Bonger: Criminality and Economic Conditions
10. Jeffrey
Reiman: The Implicit Ideology of Criminal Justice
Part II: Studying Deviance
11. Susan J. Palmer: Caught up in the Cult Wars: Confessions of a Canadian Researcher
12. Elizabeth Pisani: Sex in Boxes
13. Robert Heiner: Cross-Cultural and Historical Methodology
Part III:
Moral Panics
14. Kenneth Thompson: The Classic Moral Panic: The Mods and the Rockers
15. Mary deYoung: The Devil Goes to Day Care: McMartin and the Making of a Moral Panic
16. Robert Heiner: Crime Scares
Part IV: Sex and Sexuality
17. Roger N. Lancaster: The Cochón and
the Hombre-Hombre in Nicaragua
18. Kathryn Kendall: Women in Lesotho and the (Western) Construction of Homophobia
19. Serena Nanda: Multiple Genders among North American Indians
20. Robert Heiner: Prostitution and the Status of Women in South Korea
21. Ana Paula da Silva and Thaddeus
Gregory Blanchette: Sexual Tourism and Social Panics: Research and Intervention in Rio de Janeiro
22. Martin S. Weinberg: The Nudist Management of Respectability
Part V: Drugs
23. Angus Bancroft: Customs, Cultures and the Experience of Intoxication
24. Craig Reinarman: The
Social Construction of Drug Scares
25. 60 Minutes: Rx Drugs
26. Mark A. Bellis, Karen Hughes, and Helen Lowey: Healthy Nightclubs And Recreational Substance Use: From A Harm Minimization To A Healthy Settings Approach
27. Hiroshi Ihara: A Cold of the Soul: A Japanese Case of Disease
Mongering in Psychiatry
Part VI: State, Corporate and Occupational Deviance
28. Victor E. Kappeler and Gary W. Potter: Corporate Crime and "Higher Immorality"
29. Ling Li: Performing Bribery in China: Guanxi-Practice, Corruption with a Human Face
30. Richard L. Rubenstein: The
Cunning of History: The Holocaust and the American Future
31. Stuart L. Hills: Corporate Violence and the Banality of Evil
Part VII: Religion and Deviance
32. Robert Heiner: Nones on the Run: Evangelical Heathens in the Deep South
33. Amanda Knief: Liberté, Egalité--de
Féministes! Revealing the Burqa as a Pro-Choice Issue
34. Sharon Erickson Nepstad: Religion, Violence, and Peacemaking
Part VIII: Mental Disorders
35. Robert Heiner: The Medicalization of Deviance
36. David L. Rosenhan: On Being Sane in Insane Places
37. Sarah Schubert,
Susan Hansen, and Mark Rapley: There Is No Pathological Test: More on ADHD as Rhetoric
38. Richard Warner: Schizophrenia in the Third World
39. Ethan Watters: The Americanization of Mental Illness
40. Robert Bartholomew: Penis Panics
Part IX: A Freedom-Deviance
Trade-Off?
41. David H. Bayley: Lessons in Order
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Robert Heiner is Professor of Sociology at Plymouth State University. He is the author or editor of several books, including Social Problems: An Introduction to Critical Constructionism, Fourth Edition (OUP, 2012), and Conflicting Interests: Readings in Social Problems and Inequality (OUP,
2009).
Making Sense in the Social Sciences - Margot Northey, Lorne Tepperman and Patrizia Albanese
Special Features
New to this Edition
- Includes introductory essays to each main section of the book, as well as brief introductions to each article.
- Discussion questions follow each article, encouraging critical thinking and conversation.
- Over forty articles, including twenty-one new readings that
address such topics as criminality and economic conditions, the medicalization of deviance, drug use, and drug scares.
- An increased focus on methods, including a new section of readings on "Studying Deviance".
