Deviant behavior, 6th ed.

For Junior and Senior courses in Deviance, Social Deviance, and Deviant Behavior.

The author seeks to understand deviance from the major sociological perspectives and theories of deviance by providing a comprehensive, balanced examination of the conceptual foundation of the sociology of deviance. Throughout the text, Goode imparts a practical knowledge towards real-world matters that enables students to think clearly about them.

1. Introduction.
2. What is Deviance?
3. What Is to Be Explained? Two Approaches to Deviance.
4. Explaining Deviant Behavior: Positivist Theories.
5. Constructionist Theories of Deviance.
6. Criminal Behavior.
7. Drug Use as Deviant Behavior.
8. Legal Drugs: The Use of Alcohol and Tobacco.
9. Heterosexual Deviance.
10. Male and Female Homosexuality.
11. Physical Characteristics as Deviance.
12. Cognitive Deviance.
13. Mental Illness.
14. Implications of Studying Deviance.

• NEW - Chapter on physical characteristics as deviance. Helps students understand the full range of deviance and emphasizes deviance is not always a motivated behavior whose occurrence needs to be explained (Ch. 11).
• NEW - Chapter on cognitive deviance or deviant beliefs. Expands the conceptual and theoretical territory of deviance by emphasizing that individuals are condemned for their beliefs and attitudes as much as for their behavior (Ch. 12).
• NEW - Dedication of one chapter to crime-related deviance. This chapter distinguishes between primal or common law crime and statutory crime.
• Personal accounts at the end of the chapter. Gives students interesting material about real life experiences of deviance from which they can learn and understand the different types of de