Deviance: The Interactionist Perspective, 10/E

Earl  Rubington, Northeastern University

Martin S. Weinberg, Indiana University

ISBN-10:      0205503713

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.

There are 9 new readings in the tenth edition of this popular reader:

• “Fecal Matters”
• “Discipline in an Urban High School”
• “Self-Injurers as Loners”
• “Collegiate Rugby and Subcultural Deviance”
• “Crack Use on a College Campus”
• “Modes of Suburban Gay Identity”
• “Pit Bull Owners and Stigma”
• “Veterinarians’ Deviance and Neutralization Techniques”
• “Natural Recovery [from Addiction]”

Preface.

General Introduction.

I. THE SOCIAL DEVIANT.

1. The Process of Social Typing.

Howard S. Becker, Outsiders.

Druann Maria Heckert and Amy Best, “Redheads as Deviant Types.”

Spenser E. Cahill and Robin Eggleston, “Wheelchair Users.”

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.”

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.”

4. The Role of Third Parties.

Earl S. 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.

II. THE FORMAL REGULATION OF DEVIANCE.

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.

6. Organizational Processing of Deviants.

*Edward W. Morris, “Discipline in an Urban High School”

Lisa Frohmann, Sexual Assault.

James A. Holstein, Mental Illness Assumptions in Commitment Hearings.

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.”

III. RELATIONS AMONG DEVIANTS.

8. The Social Organization of Deviants.

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”

9. Getting into Deviant Groups.

Martin S. Weinberg, Becoming a Nudist.

Martin Sanchez Jankowski, Getting into Gangs.

Sharon Abbott, Doing Porn.

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.

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.

IV. DEVIANT IDENTITY.

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.”

13. Managing A Deviant Identity.

*Wayne Brekhus, “Modes of Suburban Gay Identity”

*Hillary Wining, Arnold Arluke, and Gary Patronek, “Pit Bull Owners and Stigma”

*DeAnn K. Gauthier, “Veterinarians’ Deviance and Neutralization Techniques”

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.