Deviance across cultures
This edited book is intended to be used with as a core text or an accompanying reader for courses in sociological deviance. The editor, Bob Heiner, argues that deviance, being culturally relative, can best be taught through a cross-cultural analysis.
Cross-cultural studies
xv, 267 pages ; 24 cm
9780195177091, 9780195177107, 0195177096, 019517710X
181067835
EXPLAINING DEVIANCE ; The Normal and the Pathological, Emile Durkheim ; On the Sociology of Deviance, Kai T. Erikson ; Social Structure and Anomie, Robert K. Merton ; Techniques of Neutralization, Gresham M. Sykes and David Matza ; A Control Theory of Delinquency, Travis Hirschi ; Conceptions of Deviant Behavior: The Old and the New, Jack P. Gibbs ; The Search for Scapegoat Deviants, Jeffery S. Victor ; MORAL PANICS ; Moral Panics in History, Erich Goode and Nachman Ben-Yehuda ; The Classic Moral Panic: The Mods and the Rockers, Kenneth Thompson ; The Devil Goes to Day Care: McMartin and the Making of a Moral Panic, Mary de Young ; Penis Panics, Robert E. Batholomew ; SEX AND SEXUALITY ; The Cochon and the Hombre-Hombre in Nicaragua, Roger N. Lancaster ; Women in Lesotho and the (Western) Construction of Homophobia, K. Limakatso Kendall ; Paraphilias Across Cultures, Dinesh Bhugra ; PROSTITUTION ; Prostitution and the Status of Women in South Korea, Robert Heiner ; Big Sister is Watching You! Gender Interaction and the Unwritten Rules of the Amsterdam Red-Light District, Manuel B. Aalbers ; DRUGS ; Rx Drugs, 60 Minutes ; Healthy Nightclubs and Recreational Substance Use: From a Harm Minimization to a Healthy Settings Approach, Mark A. Bellis, Karen Hughes, and Helen Lowey ; Why Ritalin Rules, Mary Eberstadt ; Pumped-Up Panic, Dann Perry ; Corporate Deviance ; Regulation, White-Collar Crime and The Bank of Credit and Commerce International, Basia Spalek ; Corruption Scandals in America and Europe: Enron and EU Fraud in Comparative Perspective, Cris Shore ; Religion and Deviance ; Nones on the Run: Evangelical Heathens in the Deep South, Robert Heiner ; Caught up in the Cult Wars: Confessions of a Canadian Researcher, Susan J. Palmer ; Suicide Bombers: The Just War Debate, Islamic Style, John Kelsay ; MENTAL DISORDERS ; On Being Sane in Insane Places, David L. Rosenhan ; Schizophrenia in the Third World, Richard Warner ; Epilogue: A Freedom-Deviance Trade-Off? ; Lessons in Order, David H. Bayley