Deviance and Deviants : A Sociological Approach.
Gibbs, Jennifer C.
Deviance and Deviants : A Sociological Approach. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (339 pages) - New York Academy of Sciences Series . - New York Academy of Sciences Series .
Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Brief Contents -- Contents -- Preface -- About the Companion Website -- Chapter 1 Defining Social Deviance and Deviants -- Student Learning Outcomes -- What is Deviance? -- The absolutist position -- The statistical anomaly view -- Box 1.1: In their own words:Being deviant: a left-hander in a right-handed world -- The Sociological Perspective -- The Social Construction of Deviance -- Norms, social control, and a range of tolerance -- Importance of culture, time, place, and situation -- Importance of acts, actors, and audience -- The Role of Media in Defining Deviance -- Moral entrepreneurs, moral crusades, and moral panics -- Confusing crime and deviance -- Equating diversity with deviance -- Negative and positive results of deviance -- Negative consequences of deviance -- Positive aspects of deviance -- Summary -- Outcomes Assessment -- Key Terms and Concepts -- Chapter 2 Deviance and Social Identity -- Student Learning Outcomes -- Becoming Deviant -- Deviance as a Status -- Deviance as a master status -- Primary and secondary deviance -- Box 2.1 In their own words Primary deviance: student cheating -- Deviant career -- Deviance as a Role -- Role-taking, role embracement, role merger, and role engulfment -- Role distance: the deviant deviant -- Deviance, Deviants, and Stigma -- Managing a Spoiled Identity -- Deviance, Identity, and The Media -- Summary -- Outcomes Assessment -- Key Terms and Concepts -- Chapter 3 Popular Notions and Pseudoscientific Explanations for Deviance -- Student Learning Outcomes -- Demonology: "The Devil Made Me Do It" -- Box 3.1: In their own words: Interview with a twenty-year-old wiccan -- Morality, Immorality, and Deviance -- Positivism, Pseudoscience, and the Medical Model of Deviance -- Early biological and physiological theories of deviance -- The medical model of deviance. The medicalization of deviance -- Blame it on the Media -- Print media and deviance -- Television, movies, video games and deviance -- Media violence, aggression, and deviant behavior -- The internet and the power of social media -- Fallacies of Popular Notions and Pseudoscientific Explanations -- Summary -- Outcomes Assessment -- Key Terms and Concepts -- Chapter 4 Sociological Explanations for Deviance -- Student Learning Outcomes -- A Functionalist Perspective on Deviance -- Strain theories -- Deviant subcultures -- Strengths and weaknesses of the functionalist perspective -- The Conflict Perspective and Deviant Behavior -- The Marxian heritage -- The social reality of crime and delinquency -- Social threat theory -- Strengths and weaknesses of the conflict perspective -- Interactionist Theories and the Constructionist View of Deviance -- Labeling theories -- Social learning theories -- Control theories -- Strengths and weaknesses of interactionist theories -- A Feminist Perspective on Deviance -- The Pervasive Influence of the Media -- Box 4.1: In their own words By Noah Nelson -- Summary -- Outcomes Assessment -- Key Terms and Concepts -- Chapter 5 Deviant Occupations -- Student Learning Outcomes -- The Sociology of Work -- Occupation as Master Status -- Illegal Occupations -- "Immoral" Occupations: Working in the Adult Entertainment Industry -- Working in adult films -- Stripping/nude dancing -- Box 5.1: In their own words: Topless dancers: managing stigma in a deviant occupation -- Black-Collar Occupations: Stigmatized Occupations and "Dirty" Work -- Stigma of handling the dead -- Box 5.2: In their own words: Morticians and funeral directors: handling the stigma of handling the dead -- Deviant Occupations and the Media -- Summary -- Outcomes Assessment -- Key Terms and Concepts -- Chapter 6 Sexual Deviance and Deviant Lifestyles. Student Learning Outcomes -- Sex, Gender, and Human Sexuality -- Sexual Norms and Sexual Deviance -- Adultery/Swinging/Mate Swapping/Co-Marital Sex -- Box 6.1: In their own words: Swinging and "the lifestyle" -- Naturism/nudism -- Sex norms and homosexuality -- Homosexuality and the law -- Homophobia -- Transvestism, transgenderism, and transsexuality -- Prostitution -- Phone sex and cybersex -- Sexual Deviance and the Media -- Summary -- Outcomes Assessment -- Key Terms and Concepts -- Chapter 7 Alcoholism and Other Drug Abuse -- Student Learning Outcomes -- A Brief History of Alcohol in the United States -- Alcohol Use among Social Groups in the United States -- Becoming an Alcoholic -- Stages of alcoholism -- Alcoholic as a master status -- Box 7.1: In their own words: Driving under the influence -- Alcohol and the media -- A Brief History of Drugs in the United States -- Race/ethnicity and drug legislation -- Drug-crime connection -- Moral panics and moral entrepreneurs -- Women, drugs, and moral panics -- Legal and illegal drugs -- Substance use on campus -- Box 7.2: In their own words: Underage drinking -- Recreational Drug Use -- Becoming an Addict -- Box 7.3: In their own words: Marijuana User -- Drugs and the Media -- Summary -- Outcomes Assessment -- Key Terms and Concepts -- Chapter 8 Physical and Mental Deviance -- Student Learning Outcomes -- Media and the "Ideal" Body -- Abominations of the Body -- Physical disabilities -- Obesity and eating disorders -- Box 8.1: In their own words: Bulimia -- Mental Disorders -- Mental illness and the medical model -- Mysteries of the mind -- Box 8.2: In their own words: Diagnosed with bipolar disorder -- Mental illness in the military -- Box 8.3: In their own words: Alzheimer's and multiple mental illnesses -- Mental Disorders and the Media -- One flew over the cuckoo's nest -- Summary. Outcomes Assessment -- Key Terms and Concepts -- Chapter 9 Suicide and Self‐Harm -- Student Learning Outcomes -- Defining Suicide -- Durkheim's Classic Study -- Egoistic suicide -- Altruistic suicide -- Anomic suicide -- Fatalistic suicide -- Criticisms of Durkheim's work -- Modern Theories of Suicide -- Suicide in the United States -- Sex and race differences in suicide -- Age and suicide -- Box 9.1: In their own words: Effects of suicide on family members -- Physician-Assisted Suicide -- Suicide-by-Cop -- Box 9.2: In their own words: Attempted suicide-by-cop -- Suicide Terrorism -- Self-Harm -- Box 9.3: Resources -- Suicide and the Media -- Summary -- Outcomes Assessment -- Key Terms and Concepts -- Chapter 10 Beyond the Range of Tolerance: Extreme Deviance -- Student Learning Outcomes -- Body Modification and Mutilation -- Extreme tattooing -- Surgery, implants, and amputation -- Suspension -- Box 10.1: In their own words: "Hooked" on suspension -- Edgework, Risk-Taking Behavior, and Extreme Sports -- Extreme sports -- Box 10.2: In their own words: "I'm not happy unless I'm in fear for my life" -- Extreme Lifestyles -- Minimalism -- Survivalism and doomsday preppers -- Extreme Deviance and the Media -- Summary -- Outcomes Assessment -- Key Terms and Concepts -- Chapter 11 Violence, Street Crime, and Delinquency -- Student Learning Outcomes -- Measuring Crime in the United States -- Violence -- Murder -- Robbery -- Assault -- School violence -- Child abuse -- Property Crimes -- Burglary -- Larceny-theft, motor vehicle theft, and arson -- Box 11.1: In their own words: Auto theft -- Terrorism -- Violence Against Women -- Rape and sexual assault -- Sexual assault on campus -- Rape myths -- Intimate partner violence -- Box 11.2: In their own words: Intimate partner violence -- Crime and the Media: The CSI Effect. Box 11.3: Resources for survivors of violence -- Summary -- Outcomes Assessment -- Key Terms and Concepts -- Chapter 12 Corporate Crime and Elite Deviance -- Student Learning Outcomes -- White-Collar Crime -- Defining white-collar crime -- Measuring white-collar crimes -- Box 12.1: In their own words: Compilation of interviews with Bernie Sanders -- Corporate Crime -- Political Corruption -- Police Misconduct -- Elite Deviance and the Media -- Summary -- Outcomes Assessment -- Key Terms and Concepts -- Chapter 13 Cyberdeviance -- Student Learning Outcomes -- Hacking and Online Piracy -- System trespassing -- Cyberpiracy -- Cyberwarfare -- Cyberbullying -- Box 13.1: In their own words: Confessions of a cyberbully -- Cyberstalking -- Cyberdeviance and the Media -- Summary -- Outcomes Assessment -- Key Terms and Concepts -- Chapter 14 Deviance, Deviants, and Social Control -- Student Learning Outcomes -- Informal Social Control -- Gossip, ridicule, and shame -- Ostracism -- Formal Social Control -- Neighborhood watch and vigilantism -- Law enforcement -- Courts and corrections -- Social Control and Stigma -- Media and Public Opinion -- Judge Judy -- Summary -- Outcomes Assessment -- Key Terms and Concepts -- References -- Glossary -- Index -- EULA.
9781118604694
Deviant behavior.
Electronic books.
HM811 .T466 2017
302.5/42
Deviance and Deviants : A Sociological Approach. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (339 pages) - New York Academy of Sciences Series . - New York Academy of Sciences Series .
Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Brief Contents -- Contents -- Preface -- About the Companion Website -- Chapter 1 Defining Social Deviance and Deviants -- Student Learning Outcomes -- What is Deviance? -- The absolutist position -- The statistical anomaly view -- Box 1.1: In their own words:Being deviant: a left-hander in a right-handed world -- The Sociological Perspective -- The Social Construction of Deviance -- Norms, social control, and a range of tolerance -- Importance of culture, time, place, and situation -- Importance of acts, actors, and audience -- The Role of Media in Defining Deviance -- Moral entrepreneurs, moral crusades, and moral panics -- Confusing crime and deviance -- Equating diversity with deviance -- Negative and positive results of deviance -- Negative consequences of deviance -- Positive aspects of deviance -- Summary -- Outcomes Assessment -- Key Terms and Concepts -- Chapter 2 Deviance and Social Identity -- Student Learning Outcomes -- Becoming Deviant -- Deviance as a Status -- Deviance as a master status -- Primary and secondary deviance -- Box 2.1 In their own words Primary deviance: student cheating -- Deviant career -- Deviance as a Role -- Role-taking, role embracement, role merger, and role engulfment -- Role distance: the deviant deviant -- Deviance, Deviants, and Stigma -- Managing a Spoiled Identity -- Deviance, Identity, and The Media -- Summary -- Outcomes Assessment -- Key Terms and Concepts -- Chapter 3 Popular Notions and Pseudoscientific Explanations for Deviance -- Student Learning Outcomes -- Demonology: "The Devil Made Me Do It" -- Box 3.1: In their own words: Interview with a twenty-year-old wiccan -- Morality, Immorality, and Deviance -- Positivism, Pseudoscience, and the Medical Model of Deviance -- Early biological and physiological theories of deviance -- The medical model of deviance. The medicalization of deviance -- Blame it on the Media -- Print media and deviance -- Television, movies, video games and deviance -- Media violence, aggression, and deviant behavior -- The internet and the power of social media -- Fallacies of Popular Notions and Pseudoscientific Explanations -- Summary -- Outcomes Assessment -- Key Terms and Concepts -- Chapter 4 Sociological Explanations for Deviance -- Student Learning Outcomes -- A Functionalist Perspective on Deviance -- Strain theories -- Deviant subcultures -- Strengths and weaknesses of the functionalist perspective -- The Conflict Perspective and Deviant Behavior -- The Marxian heritage -- The social reality of crime and delinquency -- Social threat theory -- Strengths and weaknesses of the conflict perspective -- Interactionist Theories and the Constructionist View of Deviance -- Labeling theories -- Social learning theories -- Control theories -- Strengths and weaknesses of interactionist theories -- A Feminist Perspective on Deviance -- The Pervasive Influence of the Media -- Box 4.1: In their own words By Noah Nelson -- Summary -- Outcomes Assessment -- Key Terms and Concepts -- Chapter 5 Deviant Occupations -- Student Learning Outcomes -- The Sociology of Work -- Occupation as Master Status -- Illegal Occupations -- "Immoral" Occupations: Working in the Adult Entertainment Industry -- Working in adult films -- Stripping/nude dancing -- Box 5.1: In their own words: Topless dancers: managing stigma in a deviant occupation -- Black-Collar Occupations: Stigmatized Occupations and "Dirty" Work -- Stigma of handling the dead -- Box 5.2: In their own words: Morticians and funeral directors: handling the stigma of handling the dead -- Deviant Occupations and the Media -- Summary -- Outcomes Assessment -- Key Terms and Concepts -- Chapter 6 Sexual Deviance and Deviant Lifestyles. Student Learning Outcomes -- Sex, Gender, and Human Sexuality -- Sexual Norms and Sexual Deviance -- Adultery/Swinging/Mate Swapping/Co-Marital Sex -- Box 6.1: In their own words: Swinging and "the lifestyle" -- Naturism/nudism -- Sex norms and homosexuality -- Homosexuality and the law -- Homophobia -- Transvestism, transgenderism, and transsexuality -- Prostitution -- Phone sex and cybersex -- Sexual Deviance and the Media -- Summary -- Outcomes Assessment -- Key Terms and Concepts -- Chapter 7 Alcoholism and Other Drug Abuse -- Student Learning Outcomes -- A Brief History of Alcohol in the United States -- Alcohol Use among Social Groups in the United States -- Becoming an Alcoholic -- Stages of alcoholism -- Alcoholic as a master status -- Box 7.1: In their own words: Driving under the influence -- Alcohol and the media -- A Brief History of Drugs in the United States -- Race/ethnicity and drug legislation -- Drug-crime connection -- Moral panics and moral entrepreneurs -- Women, drugs, and moral panics -- Legal and illegal drugs -- Substance use on campus -- Box 7.2: In their own words: Underage drinking -- Recreational Drug Use -- Becoming an Addict -- Box 7.3: In their own words: Marijuana User -- Drugs and the Media -- Summary -- Outcomes Assessment -- Key Terms and Concepts -- Chapter 8 Physical and Mental Deviance -- Student Learning Outcomes -- Media and the "Ideal" Body -- Abominations of the Body -- Physical disabilities -- Obesity and eating disorders -- Box 8.1: In their own words: Bulimia -- Mental Disorders -- Mental illness and the medical model -- Mysteries of the mind -- Box 8.2: In their own words: Diagnosed with bipolar disorder -- Mental illness in the military -- Box 8.3: In their own words: Alzheimer's and multiple mental illnesses -- Mental Disorders and the Media -- One flew over the cuckoo's nest -- Summary. Outcomes Assessment -- Key Terms and Concepts -- Chapter 9 Suicide and Self‐Harm -- Student Learning Outcomes -- Defining Suicide -- Durkheim's Classic Study -- Egoistic suicide -- Altruistic suicide -- Anomic suicide -- Fatalistic suicide -- Criticisms of Durkheim's work -- Modern Theories of Suicide -- Suicide in the United States -- Sex and race differences in suicide -- Age and suicide -- Box 9.1: In their own words: Effects of suicide on family members -- Physician-Assisted Suicide -- Suicide-by-Cop -- Box 9.2: In their own words: Attempted suicide-by-cop -- Suicide Terrorism -- Self-Harm -- Box 9.3: Resources -- Suicide and the Media -- Summary -- Outcomes Assessment -- Key Terms and Concepts -- Chapter 10 Beyond the Range of Tolerance: Extreme Deviance -- Student Learning Outcomes -- Body Modification and Mutilation -- Extreme tattooing -- Surgery, implants, and amputation -- Suspension -- Box 10.1: In their own words: "Hooked" on suspension -- Edgework, Risk-Taking Behavior, and Extreme Sports -- Extreme sports -- Box 10.2: In their own words: "I'm not happy unless I'm in fear for my life" -- Extreme Lifestyles -- Minimalism -- Survivalism and doomsday preppers -- Extreme Deviance and the Media -- Summary -- Outcomes Assessment -- Key Terms and Concepts -- Chapter 11 Violence, Street Crime, and Delinquency -- Student Learning Outcomes -- Measuring Crime in the United States -- Violence -- Murder -- Robbery -- Assault -- School violence -- Child abuse -- Property Crimes -- Burglary -- Larceny-theft, motor vehicle theft, and arson -- Box 11.1: In their own words: Auto theft -- Terrorism -- Violence Against Women -- Rape and sexual assault -- Sexual assault on campus -- Rape myths -- Intimate partner violence -- Box 11.2: In their own words: Intimate partner violence -- Crime and the Media: The CSI Effect. Box 11.3: Resources for survivors of violence -- Summary -- Outcomes Assessment -- Key Terms and Concepts -- Chapter 12 Corporate Crime and Elite Deviance -- Student Learning Outcomes -- White-Collar Crime -- Defining white-collar crime -- Measuring white-collar crimes -- Box 12.1: In their own words: Compilation of interviews with Bernie Sanders -- Corporate Crime -- Political Corruption -- Police Misconduct -- Elite Deviance and the Media -- Summary -- Outcomes Assessment -- Key Terms and Concepts -- Chapter 13 Cyberdeviance -- Student Learning Outcomes -- Hacking and Online Piracy -- System trespassing -- Cyberpiracy -- Cyberwarfare -- Cyberbullying -- Box 13.1: In their own words: Confessions of a cyberbully -- Cyberstalking -- Cyberdeviance and the Media -- Summary -- Outcomes Assessment -- Key Terms and Concepts -- Chapter 14 Deviance, Deviants, and Social Control -- Student Learning Outcomes -- Informal Social Control -- Gossip, ridicule, and shame -- Ostracism -- Formal Social Control -- Neighborhood watch and vigilantism -- Law enforcement -- Courts and corrections -- Social Control and Stigma -- Media and Public Opinion -- Judge Judy -- Summary -- Outcomes Assessment -- Key Terms and Concepts -- References -- Glossary -- Index -- EULA.
9781118604694
Deviant behavior.
Electronic books.
HM811 .T466 2017
302.5/42