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Book Deviance  a Cross cultural Perspective

Download or read book Deviance a Cross cultural Perspective written by Robert B. Edgerton and published by Benjamin-Cummings Publishing Company. This book was released on 1976 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Norms and Deviance

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  • Author : Julie Suzanne Downs
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1996
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 454 pages

Download or read book Norms and Deviance written by Julie Suzanne Downs and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Deviance Across Cultures

Download or read book Deviance Across Cultures written by Robert Heiner and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2008 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are "deviant" and "criminal" behaviors inherently wrong or evil? Taking an innovative cross-cultural approach, Deviance Across Cultures spans the globe to give instructors an invaluable new resource for investigating the social construction of deviance. From studies on prostitution and drugs to examinations of religion and corporate deviance, this anthology--a collection of both classic and contemporary articles--responds to the growing need for interdisciplinary and global learning in deviance studies. To create a strong framework for inquiry, editor Robert Heiner has written a comprehensive introduction to each article that emphasizes the topic's relationship to theory and to ongoing trends affecting the United States and other countries. Throughout, careful attention to distant cultures will encourage students to understand deviance from an academic--and less emotional--perspective. Ideal as either a main text or a supplementary reader, this collection builds on classic deviance theory and basic sociological concepts to introduce students to this complex subject. With its rich global perspective, Deviance Across Cultures will challenge and expand students' assumptions about social deviance--both at home and abroad.

Book Understanding Social Deviance from a Cross cultural Perspective

Download or read book Understanding Social Deviance from a Cross cultural Perspective written by Kimberly K. Davies-Robinet and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Deviance

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  • Author : Morris Freilich
  • Publisher : Praeger
  • Release : 1991-04-30
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 272 pages

Download or read book Deviance written by Morris Freilich and published by Praeger. This book was released on 1991-04-30 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Comprises a number of cross-cultural case studies in deviance from an anthropological point of view. The resulting data are formulated into three theoretical models, addressing "smart" and "proper" behaviour, "soft" and "hard" deviance, and the social and political uses of "staged deviance".

Book Conceptualizing Deviance

Download or read book Conceptualizing Deviance written by Candace Forbes Bright and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2016-08-05 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Deviance is both socially defined and influenced. While it is widely accepted that deviance is a social construction, this research revisits the conceptualization of deviance and advances the methods used to study deviance and social construction. This book presents and compares three methods for conceptualizing deviance within and across cultures. Comparing the United States to South Korea, perceptions of deviance are presented as how individuals define deviance and what acts are cited as deviant. Next, attribute data are used to assess differences in of conceptualizations of deviance by demographic factors. Finally, social network analysis is used to understand the social influences at work in how one perceives deviance. This book is unique in its reconceptualization of deviance and the application of social network analysis as a new tool for studying social influence and perceptions.

Book Deviance Across Cultures

Download or read book Deviance Across Cultures written by Robert Heiner and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are "deviant" and "criminal" behaviors inherently wrong or evil? Taking an innovative cross-cultural approach, Deviance Across Cultures: Constructions of Difference, Second Edition, spans the globe to give instructors and students an invaluable--and affordable--resource for investigating the social construction of deviance. From studies on sex and drugs to examinations of religious and corporate deviance, this anthology responds to the growing need for global learning in deviance studies.

Book Deviance

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  • Author : Leon Anderson
  • Publisher : Univ of California Press
  • Release : 2017-08-22
  • ISBN : 0520292375
  • Pages : 496 pages

Download or read book Deviance written by Leon Anderson and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2017-08-22 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This sociology of deviance textbook draws on up-to-date scholarship across a spectrum of deviance categories, providing a symbolic interactionist analysis of the deviance process. The book addresses positivistic theories of deviant behavior within a more encompassing description of the deviance process that includes the work of deviance claims-makers, rule-breakers, and social control agents. Cross-cultural and historical treatment of deviance categories provides background for understanding current conceptions of, and responses to, deviance. The book is divided into four parts. Section One introduces students to the sociology of deviance. A sociological approach to deviance is contrasted with popular views of deviants as demonic, mentally ill, and culturally exotic. Sociological methods for studying deviance are described, with particular emphasis on deviance ethnography. Classic positivistic theories of deviant behavior are presented with critique and discussion of revised formulations of the theories. The symbolic interactionist/constructionist approach is presented as a recursive set of processes involving deviance claims-making by moral entrepreneurs, rule-breaking, actions of social control, and stigma management and resistance by those labelled as deviant. Section Two focuses on high consensus criminal deviance, with chapters on murder, rape, street-level property crime, and white collar crime. Chapters in Section Three addresses various forms of lifestyle deviance, including alcohol abuse, drug abuse, and sex work. Section Four examines three categories of status deviance: mental illness, obesity and eating disorders, and LGBTQ identities."--Provided by publisher.

Book Comparative Deviance

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  • Author : Graeme R. Newman
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2017-07-12
  • ISBN : 1351527320
  • Pages : 353 pages

Download or read book Comparative Deviance written by Graeme R. Newman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-12 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Comparative Deviance" represents a systematic attempt to survey public perceptions of deviant behavior cross-culturally: in India, Indonesia, Iran, Italy, Yugoslavia and the United States. There is extensive diversity in both law and perception concerning such deviances as taking drugs, homosexuality, and abortion, yet there is evidence for a basically invariant structure in perception of deviance across all cultures. Within the countries studied in this volume, Geraeme Newman discovers that the strength of religious belief and urban rural background accounted for major differences in the perception of deviance - when differences were identified.Contrary to popular academic opinion in the United States, Newman finds that those countries with the most liberal laws on deviance (i.e., the least punitive sanctions) are also those highly economically developed and least totalitarian (United States and Italy). But when public opinion is considered, the public favors harsher punishments than the law provides. In contrast, in the developing countries of India, Iran and Indonesia, where penal sanctions are more severe, public opinion is much more liberal. The crucial question is the role criminal law plays in the process of modernization: whether law is a stable cultural influence, round which public opinion wavers in a startling fashion, depending on the stage of modernization.These findings challenge many assumptions of conflict theory in sociology, of cultural relativism in anthropology, and of ethical relativism in moral philosophy. All findings are examined in relation to research on modernization, social development, and the evolution of law. These fundamental issues are thus important to many different disciplines across the board.

Book Analyzing Workplace Deviance in Modern Organizations

Download or read book Analyzing Workplace Deviance in Modern Organizations written by Sharma, Naman and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2019-09-27 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Management leaders must constantly be prepared to correct the deviant behaviors of their employees and redirect the negative energy for the betterment of all. Ignoring this type of destructive behavior not only spoils the overall work environment for employees, but also risks the loss of quality, talented personnel. Analyzing Workplace Deviance in Modern Organizations is an essential reference source containing innovative research on best practices for adopting and implementing employee deviance remedial strategies. While highlighting topics including conflict resolution, cultural issues, and deviant behavior, this book is ideally designed for executives, managers, directors, business professionals, industry practitioners, human resources managers, policymakers, researchers, academicians, and students working in management, organizational behavior, human resources, and employee relations fields.

Book The Oxford Handbook of Cross Cultural Organizational Behavior

Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Cross Cultural Organizational Behavior written by Michele J. Gelfand and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2024-02-05 with total page 777 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The process of globalization has brought into focus the central role of culture in understanding work behavior. In parallel to the accelerating process of globalization, there has been an explosion of empirical studies on culture and organizational behavior. Written by a diverse group of experts in the field, this handbook provides critical knowledge on how cultures vary, and how culture influences basic psychological processes, communication, trust, social networks, leadership, and negotiation. It also covers how to manage multicultural teams, culture and human resource management practices, joint ventures, organizational change, and more.

Book Changing Societies

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  • Author : Anthony M. Orum
  • Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
  • Release : 1999
  • ISBN : 9780847693290
  • Pages : 596 pages

Download or read book Changing Societies written by Anthony M. Orum and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 1999 with total page 596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Changing Societies seeks to explain sociology through processes of global and local change. It also covers the way in which issues such as racial, gender, and ethnic differences can affect particular social institutions and processes.

Book Making Trouble

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  • Author : Jeff Ferrell
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2017-09-04
  • ISBN : 1351507605
  • Pages : 578 pages

Download or read book Making Trouble written by Jeff Ferrell and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-04 with total page 578 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Making Trouble leading scholars in criminology, sociology, criminal justice, women's studies, and social history explore the mediated cultural dynamics that construct images and understanding of crime, deviance, and control. Contributors examine the intertwined practices of the mass media, criminal justice agencies, political power holders, and criminal and deviant subcultures in producing and consuming contested representations of legality and illegality. While the collection provides broad analysis of contemporary topics, it also weaves this analysis around a set of innovative and unifying themes. These include the emergence of ""situated media"" within and between the various subcultures of crime, deviance, and control; the evolution of policing and social control as complex webs of mediated and symbolic meaning; the role of power, identity, and indifference in framing contemporary crime controversies, with special attention paid to the gendered construction of crime, deviance and control; and the importance of historical and cross-cultural dynamics in shaping understandings of crime, deviance, and control.

Book Crime and Deviance

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  • Author : Graeme R. Newman
  • Publisher : SAGE Publications, Incorporated
  • Release : 1980-07
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 344 pages

Download or read book Crime and Deviance written by Graeme R. Newman and published by SAGE Publications, Incorporated. This book was released on 1980-07 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'The whole series is undoubtedly an important one, and successive volumes will be of interest to practitioners and research workers.' -- Personality & Individual Differences, Vol 3, 1982

Book Perceptions of Deviance

Download or read book Perceptions of Deviance written by Newman, Graeme and published by Rome: UNSDRI. This book was released on 1972 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Relativity of Deviance

Download or read book The Relativity of Deviance written by John Curra and published by SAGE Publications. This book was released on 2016-01-25 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This engaging and informative book, by award-winning sociologist and criminologist John Curra, offers a valuable perspective on attitudes and behaviors labeled as deviant. The Relativity of Deviance, Fourth Edition, explores the meanings and constructions of social deviance and social reactions to it, he answers such questions as: What is deviance? What comprises deviant behavior? How are deviants treated? How is deviance socially constructed and socially sustained? Why is the same attitude, behavior, or condition praised in one situation and condemned in another? Through insightful and thought-provoking examples and informed accounts, the author illustrates that deviance cannot be explained or understood in terms of absolutes or essential characteristics nor can it be explained or understood apart from its social setting. This book approaches sex, violence, theft, drugs, suicide, rape, and mental disorders in a way that shows the critical role of sociocultural factors and social reactions in constructions of deviance and crime.

Book The Handbook of Deviance

Download or read book The Handbook of Deviance written by Erich Goode and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2015-09-25 with total page 654 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Handbook of Deviance is a definitive reference for professionals, researchers, and students that provides a comprehensive and engaging introduction to the sociology of deviance. Composed of over 30 essays written by an international array of scholars and meticulously edited by one of the best known authorities on the study of deviance Features chapters on cutting-edge topics, such as terrorism and environmental degradation as forms of deviance Each chapter includes a critical review of what is known about the topic, the current status of the topic, and insights about the future of the topic Covers recent theoretical innovations in the field, including the distinction between positivist and constructionist perspectives on deviance, and the incorporation of physical appearance as a form of deviance