Constructions of Deviance: Social Power, Context, and InteractionPatricia A. Adler, Peter Adler By including both theoretical analyses and ethnographic illustrations of how deviance is socially constructed, organized and managed, the Adlers text shows students how the concepts and theories of deviance are applied to the world around them. Representing a wide variety of deviant acts, the Adlers text challenges one to see the diversity and pervasiveness of deviance in society. The Adlers look at deviance as a component of society and examine the construction of deviance in terms of differential social power, whereby some members of society have the power to define other whole groups as deviant. |
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Page 252
... divorced people come to believe that mar- ried acquaintances saw them as " misfits " -unstable individuals who could not maintain a stable marriage , a threat to the routines of a community made up of the " normal " married . " The ...
... divorced people come to believe that mar- ried acquaintances saw them as " misfits " -unstable individuals who could not maintain a stable marriage , a threat to the routines of a community made up of the " normal " married . " The ...
Page 254
... divorced close to two years put it : You see , I've been locked in too much with divorced people . You're relat- ing to them relative to the separation . And what happened to you , when you did it , you know ( N019 , male ) . The divorced ...
... divorced close to two years put it : You see , I've been locked in too much with divorced people . You're relat- ing to them relative to the separation . And what happened to you , when you did it , you know ( N019 , male ) . The divorced ...
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... divorced parents of children in nursery school . Fischer's ( 1982 ) findings would lead us to believe that , of any group , mothers - married or divorced - of young children are most isolated . In fact , my data suggest that the gender ...
... divorced parents of children in nursery school . Fischer's ( 1982 ) findings would lead us to believe that , of any group , mothers - married or divorced - of young children are most isolated . In fact , my data suggest that the gender ...
Contents
GENERAL INTRODUCTION | 1 |
The Normal and the Pathological | 15 |
Was It Rape? An Examination of Sexual Abuse Statistics | 39 |
Copyright | |
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