The Deviance Process. Pfuhl, Erdwin H. and Stuart Henry

Pfuhl, Erdwin H. and Stuart Henry

ISBN 10: 0202304698 / ISBN 13: 9780202304694

Editore: Aldine de Gruyter, 1993

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The Deviance Process. In englischer Sprache. pages.

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• Titolo: The Deviance Process. Pfuhl, Erdwin H. and Stuart Henry
• Editore: Aldine de Gruyter
• Data di pubblicazione: 1993
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0202304698
• ISBN 13: 9780202304694
• Rilegatura: Rilegato
• Edizione: 1993.
• Condizione: gut
• Peso: 2000 grammi

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Riassunto

Like earlier editions of The Deviance Process, the purpose of this thoroughly revised and updated text is to offer students a perspective for studying deviance that will help them make sense of their everyday lives. The perspective used by Pfuhl and Henry is identified early as social constructionist, one that includes elements of interactionist and phenomenological sociology. Unlike the numerous texts that view deviance as the "essence" of things, independent of the mind of the observer, the authors perceive deviance, and its opposite, "normality," as impermanent, human creations resulting from people interacting with one another. Such a view regards deviance as the outcome of the antagonisms, contradictions, and conflicts in society. It pays serious attention to people's explanations for their actions, to the creation of moral meanings, and to the labeling, stigmatizing, and banning of one or another kind of behavior.
Pfuhl and Henry's perspective requires that deviance be studied, at least in part, in political terms, i.e., as a fundamental part of the business of making and enforcing public rules, as an outgrowth of social policy. Above all, it requires that deviance be understood not as a static element, but as a sequential process, a series of events and actions occurring over time.

Informazioni sull'autore

Erdwin H. Pfuhl is Emeritus Professor of Sociology, Arizona State University. He has also been affiliated with Whitman College, the University of Vermont, and universities throughout the United States, Canada, and England.