Deviance: The Interactionist Perspective

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This highly successful reader presents the interactionist approach to the study of deviance, examining deviance as a phenomenon that is constituted through social interpretations and the reactions of persons caught up in this social process. This book focuses on issues such as how individuals interpret and label people, how people relate to one another based on these interpretations, and the consequences of these social processes. This perspective helps students understand both social process in general and the sociology of deviance in particular. Cover Title Page Copyright Page Dedication Table of Contents Preface General Introduction Part One The Social Deviant Chapter 1 The Process of Social Typing Howard S. Becker, “Outsiders” Druann Maria Heckert and Amy Best, “Redheads as Deviant Types” Spencer E. Cahill and Robin Eggleston, “Wheelchair Users” Chapter 2 The Cultural Context Jane R. Mercer, “Labeling the Mentally Retarded” Martin S. Weinberg and Colin J. Williams, “Fecal Matters” Kirsten Dellinger and Christine L. Williams, “The Labeling of Sexual Harassment” Chapter 3 Accommodation to Deviance Kathleen J. Ferraro and John M. Johnson, “How Women Experience Battering” Michael Lynch, “Accommodation to Madness” J. Scott Kenney, “When Accommodation Breaks Down” Chapter 4 The Role of Third Parties Earl Rubington, “The Enforcement of College Alcohol Policy” Edwin M. Lemert, “Paranoia and the Dynamics of Exclusion” Erving Goffman, “The Moral Career of the Mental Patient” Part Two The Formal Regulation of Deviance Chapter 5 Agencies and Their Theories William B. Waegel, “Case Routinization in Investigative Police Work” Kathryn J. Fox, “Control Agents and the Creation of Deviant Types” Donileen R. Loseke and Spencer E. Cahill, “Experts on Battered Women” Chapter 6 Organizational Processing of Deviants Edward W. Morris, “Discipline in an Urban School” Lisa Frohmann, “Sexual Assault” James A. Holstein, “Mental Illness Assumptions in Commitment Hearings” Chapter 7 The Effects of Contact with Control Agents William J. Chambliss, “The Saints and the Roughnecks” Adina Nack, “Medical Diagnosis and the Reinforcement of Deviant Labels” Nancy J. Herman and Charlene E. Miall, “The Positive Consequences of Stigma” Part Three Relations among Deviants Chapter 8 The Social Organization of Deviance Joel Best and David F. Luckenbill, “Types of Relationships” Patricia A. Adler and Peter Adler, “Self-Injurers as Loners” Kenneth B. Muir and Trina Seitz, “Collegiate Rugby and Subcultural Deviance” Chapter 9 Entry Into Deviant Groups Martin S. Weinberg, “Becoming a Nudist” Martin Sanchez Jankowski, “Getting into Gangs” Sharon A. Abbott, “Doing Porn” Chapter 10 Acculturation to Group Norms Elijah Anderson, “The Code of the Streets” Martin S. Weinberg, “The Nudist Management of Respectability” Liahna Gordon, “Lesbians’ Resistance to Culturally Defined Attractiveness” Chapter 11 Social Diversity Curtis Jackson-Jacobs, “Crack Use on a College Campus” Paul C. Higgins, “Outsiders in a Hearing World” Stephen E. Lankenau, “Diversity in Panhandling” Part Four Deviant Identity Chapter 12 Acquiring a Deviant Identity Martin S. Weinberg, Colin J. Williams, and Douglas W. Pryor, “Becoming Bisexual” Penelope A. McLorg and Diane E. Taub, “Anorexia, Bulimia, and Developing a Deviant Identity” Katherine Irwin, “Tattoos without Stigma” Chapter 13 Managing a Deviant Identity Wayne Brekhus, “Modes of Suburban Gay Identity” Hillary Twining, Arnold Arluke, and Gary Patronek, “Pit Bull Owners and Stigma” DeAnn K. Gauthier, “Veterinarians’ Deviance and Neutralization Techniques” Chapter 14 Transforming Deviant Identity Robert Granfield and William Cloud, “Natural Recovery” Ira Sommers, Deborah R. Baskin, and Jeffrey Fagan, “Getting Out of the Life” Martin S. Weinberg, Colin J. Williams, and Bo Laurent, “Medicalizing and Demedicalizing Hermaphroditism”