Daniel L. Dotter

Creating Deviance

An Interactionist Approach

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Produktbeschreibung

Creating Deviance is a basic text introducing deviance from an interactionist perspective, placing the study of deviant behavior within the broader terrain of cultural meaning. By examining the persistence of gender inequality, the formation of youth subcultures, and other issues Dotter provides a valuable resource for the study of deviance and crime and for introductory courses in sociology on deviance and social control.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Altamira Press
• Seitenzahl: 358
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. August 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 519g
• ISBN-13: 9780759105041
• ISBN-10: 0759105049
• Artikelnr.: 21011521

Autorenporträt

Daniel Dotter is Professor of Criminal Justice at Grambling State University, Louisiana. He received his Ph.D. from Virginia Polytechnic Institute, and does research in social deviance, youth subculture, and mass media and crime.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Social Deviance, the Interactionist Tradition, and Cultural
Studies
Chapter 2 The Scenario as Interpretive Strategy: An Interactionist/Cultural
Studies Articulation
Chapter 3 Reading Interactionism: Pragmatism and the Problem of Meaning
Chapter 4 The Creation of Deviance: Social Definition and the Process of
Interaction
Chapter 5 Toward a Postmodern Cultural Studies: Meaning Creation in Media
Culture
Chapter 6 Rock In a Hard Place: Historical Stigmatization of Adolescent
Subcultures In Popular Music
Chapter 7 Murder In the Media: Cultural Criminology, Constructions of
Violence, and a Crime of the Early Century
Chapter 8 Theorizing Deviance in the Postmodern: The Turn Continues