Constructions of Deviance: Social Power, Context, and Interaction

摘要: This text is the industry standard for publishing most recent and relevant articles in field. It demonstrates to students how concepts theories of deviance can be applied world around them. The authors include both theoretical analyses ethnographic illustrations socially constructed, organized, managed. Adlers challenge reader see diversity pervasiveness society by covering a wide variety deviant acts represented throughout text. Most importantly, present as component examine construction terms differential social power, whereby some members have power define other whole groups "deviant." book takes an "interactionist" or "constructionist" perspective on deviance, looking at processes that create deviance. selected studies are character, focusing experiences deviants, deviant-making process, ways which people who labeled react label.