476 Pages
by
Routledge
476 Pages
by
Routledge
476 Pages
by
Routledge
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The new 2022 edition of the most widely taught deviance text brings us into a changing political era. A new chapter on political deviance includes a section that defines political deviance, emphasizing a sociological and not an ideological definition. It also covers which sectors of the society define what constitutes political deviance; and political deviance and its relation to social change.... Read more
- Introducing Deviance
- Explaining Deviant Behavior
- Constructing Deviance
- Poverty and the Hierarchy of Social Class
- Crime, Criminalization, and Criminal Behavior
- White Collar and Corporate Crime
- Political Deviance
- Substance Abuse
- Sexual Deviance
- Unconventional Beliefs
- Mental Disorder
- Undesirable Physical Characteristics
- Tribal Stigma
Biography
Erich Goode is Sociology Professor Emeritus at Stony Brook University. He has taught at a half-dozen universities and is the author of twelve books, including The Taming of New York’s Washington Square and Drugs in American Society. Goode has received a Guggenheim Fellowship and several teaching awards. He lives in New York City, which provides ample strategic ethnographic research sites for his interests.
