Understanding Deviance Connecting Classical and Contemporary Perspectives Sociology Re-Wired Series

In this collection of 48 reprinted and completely original articles, Tammy Anderson gives her fellow instructors of undergraduate deviance a refreshing way to energize and revitalize their courses. [36 are reprints; 12 are original to this text/anthology]

First, in 12 separate sections, she presents a wide range of deviant behaviors, traits, and conditions including: underage drinking and drunk driving, doping in elite sports, gang behavior, community crime, juvenile delinquency, hate crime, prison violence and transgendered prisoners, mental illness, drug-using women and domestic violence, obesity, tattooing, sexual fetishes, prostitution, drug epidemics, viral pandemics, crime control strategies and racial inequality, gay neighborhoods, HIV and bugchasers, and (lastly) youth, multicultural identity and music scenes.

Second, her pairing of "classic" and "contemporary" viewpoints about deviance and social control not only "connects" important literatures of the past to today?s (student) readers, her "connections framework" also helps all of us see social life and social processes more clearly when alternative meanings are accorded to similar forms of deviant behavior. We also learn how to appreciate and interact with those who see things differently from ourselves. This may better equip us to reach common goals in an increasingly diverse and ever-changing world.

Third, a major teaching goal of Anderson?s anthology is to sharpen students? critical thinking skills by forcing them to look at how a deviant behavior, trait or condition, can be viewed from opposing or alternative perspectives. By learning to see deviance from multiple perspectives, students will better understand their own and other?s behavior and experiences and be able to anticipate future trends. Balancing multiple perspectives may also assist students in their practical work in social service, criminal justice and other agencies and institutions that deal with populations considered "deviant" in one way or another.

Preface, Tammy L. Anderson / Part 1: Classic and Contemporary Approaches to Deviance: Section 1. Defining Deviance: Introduction, Tammy L. Anderson, 1. Rules for the Distinction of The Normal and the Pathological, Emile Durkheim / 2. Notes on the Sociology of Deviance, Kai T. Erikson / 3. Definitions of Deviance and Deviance and the Responses of Others from Outsiders, Howard S. Becker / 4. Defining Deviance Down, Daniel Moynihan / 5. Connections: Definitions of Deviance and the Case of Underage Drinking and Drunk Driving, Tammy L. Anderson, Critical Thinking Questions / Section 2. Functionalism, Anomie, General Strain Theory: Introduction, Tammy L. Anderson. / 6. Social Structure and Anomie, Robert Merton / 7. Homeboys, New Jacks, and Anomie, John M. Hagedorn / 8. A General Strain Theory of Community Differences in Crime Rates, Robert Agnew / 9. Connections: Understanding Doping in Elite Sports through Anomie and General Strain Perspectives, Tammy L. Anderson, Critical Thinking Questions / Section 3. Social Disorganization and Collective Efficacy: Introduction, Tammy L. Anderson / 10. Introduction and Growth of Chicago and Differentiation of Local Areas from Juvenile Delinquency and Urban Areas, Clifford R. Shaw and Henry D. McKay / 11. Collective Efficacy Theory: Lessons Learned and Directions for Future Inquiry, Robert J. Sampson / 12. The Urban Ecology of Bias Crime: A Study of Disorganized and Defended Neighborhoods, Ryken Grattet / 13. Connections: The Prison Community from a Social Disorganization and Collective Efficacy Perspective, Lori Sexton, Critical Thinking Questions / Section 4. Social Pathology, Degeneracy and Medicalization: Introduction, Tammy L. Anderson / 14. Social Pathology: A Systematic Approach to the Theory of Sociopathic Behavior, Edwin Lemert / 15. Whatever Happened to Social Pathology? Conceptual Fashions and the Sociology of Deviance, Joel Best / 16. The Shifting Engines of Medicalization, Peter Conrad / 17. Connections: Mental Illness as Degeneracy and Disease, Victor Perez, Critical Thinking Questions / Section 5. Labeling, Resistance, and Edgework: Introduction, Tammy L. Anderson / 18. Beyond Mead: The Societal Reaction to Deviance, Edwin W. Lemert / 19. Edgework: A Social Psychological Analysis of Voluntary Risk Taking, Stephen Lyng / 20. Resistance as Edgework in Violent Intimate Relationships of Drug-Involved Women, Rajah Valli / 21. Connections: Labeling, Resistance and Edgework through Parkour, John J. Brent, Critical Thinking Questions / Section 6. Stigma, Carnival, and the Grotesque Body: Introduction, Tammy L. Anderson / 22. Stigma and Social Identity from Stigma, Erving Goffman / 23. Why do People get Tattoos?, Miliann Kang and Katherine Jones / 24. Big Handsome Men, Bears and Others: Virtual Constructions of 'Fat Male Embodiment', Lee F. Monaghan / 25. Connections: Explaining Body Deviance with Stigma and Carnival of the Grotesque, David Lane, Critical Thinking Questions / Section 7. Deviant Careers, Identity and Lifecourse Criminology: Introduction, Tammy L. Anderson / 26. Kinds of Deviance: A Sequential Model from Outsiders, Howard S. Becker / 27. Crime and Deviance in the Lifecourse, Robert Sampson and John Laub / 28. Weighing the Consequences of a Deviant Career: Factors Leading to an Exit From Prostitution, Sharon Oselin / 29. Connections: Understanding Street Prostitution from Deviant Career and Life-Course Criminology Perspectives, Emily Bonistall and Kevin Ralston, Critical Thinking Questions / Section 8. Moral Panics and Risk Society: Introduction, Tammy L. Anderson / 30. Deviance and Moral Panics from Folk Devils and Moral Panics, Stanley Cohen / 31. Moral Panics: Culture, Politics, and Social Construction, Erich Goode and Nachman Ben-Yehuda / 32. Moral panic versus the risk society: the implications of the changing sites of social anxiety, Sheldon Ungar / 33. Connections: [A]moral Panics and Risk in Contemporary Drug and Viral Pandemic Claims, Philip R. Kavanaugh and R.J. Maratea, Critical Thinking Questions / Section 9. Critical Criminology, Culture of Control, Mass Incarceration: Introduction, Tammy L. Anderson / 34. Child Saving Movement in Illinois from The Child Savers: The Invention of Delinquency, Anthony M. Platt / 35. The Hyper-Criminalization of Black and Latino Male Youth in the Era of Mass Incarceration, Victor Rios / 36. Reforming Education Through Crime from Governing through Crime, Jonathan Simon / 37. Connections: The Social Control of Youth across Institutional Spheres, Aaron Kupchik, Critical Thinking Questions / Part 2. Emergent Possibilities and the Future of Deviance: Section 10. Queer Theory, Communities and Citizenship: Introduction, Tammy L. Anderson / 38. Coming Out all Over: Deviants and the Politics of Social Problems, John I. Kitsuse / 39. There goes the Gayborhood, Amin Ghaziani / 40. Queer Presences and Absences: Citizenship, Community, diversity–or Death, Yvette Taylor / 41. Connections: HIV and Bug Chasers across Queer Collectives, Holly Swan and Laura Monico, Critical Thinking Questions / Section 11. Critical Race Theory, Multiculturalism, and Identity: Introduction, Tammy L. Anderson / 42. Deviance as Resistance: A new Research Agenda for the Study of Black Politics, Cathy J. Cohen / 43. The Battle of Los Angeles: The Cultural Politics of Chicana/o Music in the Greater Eastside, Victor Hugo Viesca / 44. I was aggressive for the streets, pretty for the pictures: Gender, difference and the inner-city girl, Nikki Jones / 45. Connections: Marginality, Identity and Music Scenes, Tammy L. Anderson, Critical Thinking Questions / Section 12. Biomedicalization, BioPower and Biocitizens: Introduction, Tammy L. Anderson / 46. The Medicalization of Unhappiness, Ronald W. Dworkin / 47. Civilizing Technologies and the Control of Deviance, Scott Vrecko / 48. Connections: BioMedicalization of Drug Addiction and the Reproduction of Inequality, Tammy L. Anderson and Philip Kavanaugh, Critical Thinking Questions

Tammy L. Anderson is a Professor of Sociology and Criminal Justice at the University of Delaware. Her recent books Rave Culture: The Alteration and Decline of a Philadelphia Music Scene (Temple University Press), Sex, Drugs, and Death (Routledge), and Neither Villain nor Victim: Empowerment and Agency among Women Substance Abusers (Rutgers University Press), along with her many peer review papers on substance abuse, crime, and music scenes, showcase her range of scholarship in the area of deviance, culture, and social control.