AltaMira Press
Pages: 640
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Trim: 6 x 9
978-1-882289-38-7 • Paperback • January 1995 • $83.00 • (£64.00)
Nancy J. Herman (Ph.D., McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario Canada) is Associate Professor of Sociology at Central Michigan University. She has researched, written, and taught in the areas of deviance, social psychology, the sociology of mental illness, and qualitative methods. In 1994, she co-edited with Larry T. Reynolds, Symbolic Interaction: An Introduction to Social Psychology (New York: General Hall). Dr. Herman is currently the editor of the Michigan Sociological Review.
Part 1 Introduction: What is Deviant Behavior?
Chapter 2 Criminology: An Integrationist Perspective
Chapter 3 Psychological Theories of Deviance
Part 4 Traditional Theories of Deviance
Chapter 5 The Normal and the Pathological
Chapter 6 Social Structure and Anomie
Chapter 7 Illegitimate Means and Delinquent Subcultures
Chapter 8 Evaluation of Structural-Functionalist and Anomie Theories
Chapter 9 The Theory of Differential Association
Chapter 10 Evaluation of Differential Association Theory
Chapter 11 A Control Theory of Delinquency
Chapter 12 Evaluation of Social Control Theory
Part 13 Contemporary Theories of Deviance
Chapter 14 Group Conflict Theory as an Explanation of Crime
Chapter 15 A Radical Perspective on Crime
Chapter 16 Evaluation of Conflict Theory
Chapter 17 Secondary Deviance and Role Conceptions
Chapter 18 Outsiders
Chapter 19 Evaluation of Labeling Theory
Part 20 Studying Deviance
Chapter 21 Accessing the Stigmatized: Gatekeeper Problems, Obstacles and Impediments to Social Research
Chapter 22 Personal Safety in Dangerous Places
Part 23 The Deviance-Making Enterprise
Chapter 24 Moral Entrepeneurs: The Creation and Enforcement of Deviant Categories
Chapter 25 The Social Construction of Deviance: Experts on Battered Women
Chapter 26 The 'Discovery' of Child Abuse
Chapter 27 The Legislation of Morality: Creating Drug Laws
Chapter 28 Medicine as an Institution of Social Control: Consequences for Society
Part 29 Organizational Deviance—Beyond the Interpersonal Level
Chapter 30 The Making of Blind Men
Chapter 31 Record-keeping Practices in the Policing of Deviants
Chapter 32 Constructing Probationer Careers: Revocation as Censure Transformation and Tertiary Deviance in the Deviance Amplification Process
Chapter 33 The In-patient Phase in the Career of the Psychiatric Patient
Chapter 34 Being Sane in Insane Places
Part 35 Organizing Deviants—Subcultures and Deviant Activities
Chapter 36 The "Mixed Nutters" and "Looney Tuners:" The Emergence, Development, Nature, and Functions of Two Informal, Deviant Subcultures of Chronic Ex-psychiatric Patients
Chapter 37 Constructing Women and Their World: The Subculture of Female Impersonation
Chapter 38 Into the Darkness: An Ethnographic Study of Witchcraft and Death
Chapter 39 The Urban Speed Gang: An Examination of the Subculture of Young Motorcyclists
Chapter 40 The Culture of Gangs in the Culture of the School
Chapter 41 Parade Strippers: A Note on Being Naked in Public
Chapter 42 Knives and Gaffs: Definitions in the Deviant World of Cockfighting
Chapter 43 Policing Morality: Impersonal Sex in Public Places
Part 44 Becoming Deviant
Chapter 45 Paranoia and the Dynamics of Exclusion
Chapter 46 Creating Crazies/Making Mentals: The Pre-patient Phase in the Moral Career of the Psychiatric Patient
Chapter 47 A Model of Homosexual Identity Formation
Chapter 48 Becoming an Addict/Alcoholic
Chapter 49 Drifting into Dealing: Becoming a Cocaine Seller
Chapter 50 Becoming a Hit Man: Neutralization in a Very Deviant Career
Part 51 Managing Stigma/Managing Deviant Identities
Chapter 52 Stigma and Social Identity
Chapter 53 Deviance as Disavowal: The Managment of Strained Interaction by the Visibly Handicapped
Chapter 54 Return to Sender: Reintegrative Stigma-Management Strategies of Ex-Psychiatric Patients
Chapter 55 Double Stigma and Boundary Maintenance: How Gay Men Deal with AIDS
Chapter 56 Ostomates: Negotiating and Involuntary Identity
Part 57 Transforming Deviance
Chapter 58 The 'Post' Phase of Deviant Careers: Reintegrating Drug Traffickers
Chapter 59 Becoming Normal: Certification as a Stage in Exiting from Crime
Chapter 60 Recovery through Self-Help
Chapter 61 Gaining and Losing Weight: Identity Transformations