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Deviant Behavior

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What is deviance? Who defines what is deviance? What is deviant behavior? Why do some people engage in deviant behavior? How does society respond to deviant behavior? What measures or actions does society use or take to regulate, prevent, and punish deviance? And what are the consequences of these efforts? Are the same behaviors or people considered deviant in all historical errors and in all social contexts?

Deviance: Commonly refers to violations of social norms (including legal norms) but many sociologists reject this behavioral or normative definition of deviance and see deviance instead as simply a label. Deviance in this view is that which we react to, through social control responses, as deviance. Durkheim felt that lack of norms led to deviant behavior.

Deviant behavior usually evokes formal and informal punishment, restrictions, or other controls of society. These formal and informal controls constrain most people to conform to social norms. Despite the social sanctioning and controlling, however, we sometimes observe deviant behavior around us. Then, why do some people engage in such deviant behavior even if social punishments are expected? Sociologists have attempted to explain it in various aspects.

Books On Deviant Behavior

Moral Panics: The Social Construction of Deviance Book by Goode and Ben-Yehuda

Outlines & Highlights for Deviant Behavior: Crime, Conflict, and Interest Groups McCaghy

Deviance and Social Control in Sport Book by Kevin Young and Michael Atkinson

Constructions of Deviance: Social Power, Context, and Interaction Patricia A. Adler, Peter Adler

On Scandal: Moral Disturbances in Society, Politics and Art (Structural Analysis in the Social Sciences, No. 31) by Ari Adut - "...intellectually worthwhile and entertaining." - Pub. Weekly

Thinking About Deviance: A Realistic Perspective by Paul Higgins

Deviant Behavior (8th Edition) Erich Goode

Deviant Behavior by Edward J. Clarke

Sociology of Deviant Behavior by Marshall B. Clinard and Robert F. Meier

Deviant Behavior: Crime, Conflict, and Interest Groups Charles H. McCaghy, Timothy A. Capron, J. D. Jamieson, and Sandra H Harley Carey

Readings in Deviant Behavior (5th Edition) Alex Thio, Thomas C. Calhoun, Addrain Conyers

Deviance: The Interactionist Perspective (10th Edition) Earl S Rubington, Martin S.Weinberg

Deviance Across Cultures Robert Heiner

The Sociology of Crime and Deviance

Deviant Behavior and Human Rights

Degrees of Deviance

Deviance and Deviants