Social deviance / Stuart Henry.
| Uniform Title: | Short introductions.
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| Language: | English |
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Cambridge ; Malden, MA :
Polity,
2009.
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| Series: | Short introductions.
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| Physical Description: | viii, 144 pages ; 23 cm. |
| Format: | Book |
Contents:
- What is deviance?
- Why people ban behavior
- Why some people break rules : From extreme to mundane deviance
- Neutralizing morality and deviant motivations
- How people become deviants
- Responding to deviant designations and coping with stigma
- Becoming normal : The politics of stigma
- Conclusion : What can studying social deviance do for you?