The sociology of deviance : an obituary
Documents the field of sociology of deviance from its conception to its coming of age in late 1930s sociology. The text examines the heyday of the field as a popular science and critique of social control in the 1960s, and analyzes its death at the hands of the post-1968 critics
History
xii, 340 pages ; 23 cm
9780335097807, 9780335097814, 0335097804, 0335097812
31202684
Part 1 A new deal for degenerates? the sociology of social deviation 1895-1940Durkheim, modernity and doubtthe birth - immigration and the urban junglesocial realism and the Godfather - degeneration, cultural diversity and the New Deal - the potent union of psychiatry and sociology - the coming of age of the sociology of deviationpersistent class and cultural conflict - deviance, degeneration and social democracyPart 2 Regulating deviance - fantasies of social control 1941-1967beyond the frontier and into fantasylanddeviance, social control and the end of ideology - McCarthyism and secondary devianceregulation as measurement and balance - the labelling perspective and the flowering of social deviancePart 3 Crime and power - the repoliticization of moral judgment 1968-1975resistance and resentmentmorality, politics and subjectivity - deviance as ideologythe final collapse