Stuart Henry and Roger Eaton,
Degrees of Deviance
Student Accounts of Their Deviant Behavior,
Second Edition
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Description:
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Deviance described in terms accessible to
college students
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Personal accounts of students’ own deviance
enlivens the text
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Accounts organized in broad categories of
similar behaviors
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Invites students to explore how deviance is
socially constructed
Categories include:
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Erotic Activities: Affairs, prostitution, stripping, and cyberporn
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Restaurant Scams:
Stereotyping customers, tippers and stiffers and other accounts
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Deviance at Work: "Nurse prostitutes", stealing from the military, and other
accounts
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Sporting Scams:
Athletes on steroids and other accounts
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Alcohol Antics:
Fraternity drinking, pressure to drink, and parking lot parties
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Marijuana Merriment: Three separate personal accounts
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Cocaine Connections:
Four separate personal accounts
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Coping with College Life: Medical students on drugs, self-mutilation, and other
accounts
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Coping with Stigma:
Cystic fibrosis, hyperactivity, and alcohol recovery
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Alternative Lifestyles: Survivalism, body piercing, naturism, and other
accounts
All of this is preceded by an extensive introduction by the editors putting it
all in theoretical perspective. The editors also introduce each section,
highlighting areas of particular value for understanding the concept of
deviance.
Review:
“ I think the book is a great work that addresses phenomenological concerns of
everyday deviance from a student perspective. It provides a lot of good, raw
data that allow for the application of theories and research in the
area.” —Daniel Quinn, Adrian College
Excerpt:
The original idea for this book was to describe the
deviant activities of present-day students. One of the main problems when
teaching sociology is that the concepts are often seen as textbook issues that
have little to do with real life. In many courses on deviance students are
asked to read research literature so they may understand other people’s
rule-breaking behavior. But the deviant behavior they read about has little
similarity in content to the deviant behavior that they do. Published studies
of deviant behavior are typically based on research conducted ten to twenty
years earlier. This research is typically on people of a different age and
class from the students, and is conducted by people who are as old as their
parents. Because of this, conventional texts on deviance may fail to connect
the deviance of others to the students’ own real-life experiences
Table of Contents:
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Preface to the Sencond Edition
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Chapter 1 – Introduction: Constructing Deviance
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Chapter 2 – Erotic Activities
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Chapter 3 – Restaurant Scams
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Chapter 4 – Deviance at Work
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Chapter 5 – Sporting Scams
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Chapter 6 – Alcohol Antics
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Chapter 7 – Marijuana Merriment
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Chapter 8 – Cocaine Connections
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Chapter 9 – Coping with College Life
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Chapter 10 – Coping with Stigma
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Chapter 11 – Alternative Lifestyles
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