Test Bank For Sociology of Deviant Behavior 15th Edition by Marshall Clinard, Robert Meier ISBN 1133594158 9781133594154

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ISBN 10: 1133594158
ISBN 13: 978-1133594154
Author: Marshall Clinard, Robert Meier
Sociology of Deviant Behavior 15th Edition: SOCIOLOGY OF DEVIANT BEHAVIOR hits the hot topics from terrorism to white-collar crime and shows you how sociological theory explains them. You’ll read about justified deviance (e.g., terrorism); corporate crime and mistakes, such as the General Motors ignition problem; the changing moral landscape regarding gay marriage and marijuana use; the importance of social media in facilitating deviant acts; political crime, and more. Now in its fifteenth edition, this book continues to be the leader in its market. When you read it, you’ll see why.

 

Sociology of Deviant Behavior 15th Table of contents:

Part One: Introduction to Deviance

• Ch 1: The Nature and Meaning of Deviance

  • What is Deviance?

  • Deviance and Society

  • Summary

• Ch 2: Deviant Events and Social Control

  • Deviant Events

  • Social Control

  • Law as an Example of Formal Control

  • The Irony of Social Control

  • Summary

Part Two: Explaining Deviance

• Ch 3: Becoming Deviant

  • Socialization and Social Roles

  • Seeing the Deviant’s Perspective

  • Individualistic Theories of Deviance

  • Summary

• Ch 4: Major Theories of Deviance

  • Anomie Theory

  • Conflict Theories

  • Labeling Theory

  • Control Theory

  • Learning or Socialization Theory

  • Summary

Part Three: Deviance and Crime

• Ch 5: Crimes of Interpersonal Violence

  • Crime as Deviance

  • Assault and Murder

  • Domestic Violence

  • Forcible Rape

  • Society’s Reaction to Crimes of Personal Violence

  • Summary

• Ch 6: Nonviolent Crime

  • Occasional Property Offenders

  • Conventional Criminal Careers

  • Political Criminal Offenders

  • Organized Crime and Criminals

  • Professional Offenders

  • Summary

• Ch 7: White-Collar and Corporate Crime

  • The Example of Computer Crime

  • A Brief History

  • Defining White-Collar Crime

  • Corporate Criminal Behavior

  • Professional White-Collar Crime and Deviance

  • Characteristics of White-Collar Offenders

  • Explaining White-Collar Crime

  • Costs of White-Collar and Corporate Crime

  • Explaining Corporate Criminal Behavior

  • Controlling White-Collar and Corporate Crime

  • Summary

Part Four: Types of Deviance

• Ch 8: Drug Use and Addiction

  • Drug Taking as Deviance

  • Legal Drug Use

  • Types of Illegal Drugs

  • Marijuana Use

  • Opiate Use and Addiction

  • Becoming an Opiate Addict

  • Cocaine Use

  • Society’s Response to Drug Use and Addiction

  • Prevention of Drug Use

  • Summary

• Ch 9: Drunkenness and Alcoholism

  • Physiological and Behavioral Aspects of Alcohol

  • Types of Drinkers

  • Drinking as a Social and Group Activity

  • Alcoholism and Problem Drinking

  • Group and Subcultural Influences on Excessive Drinking

  • Society’s Response to Alcohol Use and Alcoholism

  • Public Policy and Public Drunkenness and Alcoholism

  • The Continuing Controversy: Can “Recovering” Alcoholics Ever Return to Drinking?

  • Summary

• Ch 10: Suicide

  • Suicidal Behavior

  • Historical Background

  • Extent of Suicide

  • Types of Suicide

  • Sociological Theories of Suicide

  • Social Meanings of Suicide

  • Preventing Suicide

  • Physician-Assisted Suicide or “Aid in Dying”

  • Summary

• Ch 11: Heterosexual Deviance

  • Sexual Norms

  • Selected Forms of Heterosexual Deviance

  • Extramarital Sex (Adultery)

  • Sex and the Computer

  • Sex Work and Prostitution

  • Pornography

  • Summary

Part Five: Studies in Stigma

• Ch 12: Gays, Lesbians, and Homophobia

  • The Development of the Notion of Homosexuality

  • Why Some Regard Homosexuality as Deviant

  • Social Dimensions of Homophobia

  • Law and Public Attitudes

  • Prevalence and Variations of Male Homosexuality

  • Sex-Role Socialization and Becoming a Homosexual

  • Lesbianism

  • Transvestitism

  • AIDS and the Homosexual Community

  • Current Controversies over Homosexuality

  • Summary

• Ch 13: Physical Disabilities

  • Deviance and Physical Disabilities

  • Definitions and Distinctions

  • Disabilities and the Idea of Deviance

  • Societal Reaction and Ambivalence toward Disability

  • Disability as a Socialization Process

  • Disability as a “Career”

  • Managing Disability

  • The Americans with Disabilities Act

  • Summary

• Ch 14: Mental Disorders

Part Six: Looking Ahead

• Ch 15: Recent Forms of Deviance

  • Rudeness

  • Cyber Deviance

  • Bullying

  • Child Obesity as Child Abuse

  • Pirates

  • Teachers Abusing Their Students

  • Extreme Deviance

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