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Deviant behavior. Social deviance

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  • Creating Devianceby Daniel L. Dotter

    AltaMira Press 2004; US$ 44.95

    Creating Deviance is a basic text introducing deviance from an interactionist perspective, placing the study of deviant behavior within the broader terrain of cultural meaning. By examining the persistence of gender inequality, the formation of youth subcultures, and other issues Dotter provides a valuable resource for the study of deviance and crime... more...

  • Handbook on Social Stratification in the BRIC Countriesby Li Peilin; M. K. Gorshkov; Celi Scalon

    World Scientific Publishing Company 2013; US$ 257.00

    Along with the fast growing economy, the term “BRICs” was coined to represent the newly emerging countries — Brazil, Russia, India and China. The enhanced economy in these countries has largely improved people's life; at the same time, it has also strongly influenced the transformation of social structure, norms and values.... more...

  • Transgressionby Chris Jenks

    Taylor and Francis 2003; US$ 50.95

    Transgression is truly a key idea for our time. Society is created by constraint and boundaries, but as our culture is increasingly subject to uncertainty and flux we find it more and more difficult to determine where those boundaries lie. In this fast moving study, Chris Jenks ranges widely over the history of ideas, the major theorists, and the... more...

  • Stratificationby Wendy Bottero

    Taylor and Francis 2004; US$ 53.95

    Offering a fresh and exciting new perspective on differentiation and inequality, this absorbing book investigates how our most personal choices (of sexual partners, friends, consumption items and lifestyle) are influenced by hierarchy and social difference. Exploring the topics of assortative mating; social capital; friendship networks and cultural... more...

  • The Cycle of Deviant Behaviorby Howard B. Kaplan; Glen C. Tolle

    Springer 2006; US$ 94.99

    Presents a study on criminal and antisocial behaviour. This book presents an integrative theory of deviant behaviour, synthesizing social stress, social control, societal labelling, and other perspectives. It describes the intergenerational cycle of deviant behaviour and identifies the relationship between deviance and its significant correlates. more...

  • Accounting for Rapeby Irina Anderson; Kathy Doherty

    Taylor and Francis 2007; US$ 46.95

    Accounting for Rape presents an original perspective on the subject of rape, focusing on both female and male sexual violence. The authors investigate everyday beliefs about rape, to examine how blaming the victim and the normalization of rape are achieved by people in a discussion about sexual violence. They synthesize discursive psychology and... more...

  • Egalitarianismby Nils Holtug; Kasper Lippert-Rasmussen

    Oxford University Press, UK 2006; US$ 94.99

    Egalitarianism, the view that equality matters, attracts a great deal of attention amongst contemporary political theorists. And yet it has turned out to be surprisingly difficult to provide a fully satisfactory egalitarian theory. The cutting-edge articles in Egalitarianism move the debate forward. They are written by some of the leading political... more...

  • Pathologies of Powerby Paul Farmer

    University of California Press 2004; US$ 15.16

    Paul Farmer, a physician and anthropologist with twenty years of experience working in Haiti, Peru, and Russia, argues that promoting the social and economic rights of the world's poor is the most important human rights struggle of our time. In Pathologies of Power Farmer uses harrowing stories of life - and death - in extreme situations to link... more...

  • Somebodies and Nobodiesby Robert W. Fuller

    New Society Publishers 2004; US$ 16.95

    Now in Paperback: the "eye-opener that we can all learn and benefit from in our daily lives." --Jeremy Rifkin more...

  • Global Inequality Mattersby Dr Darrel Moellendorf

    Palgrave Macmillan 2009; US$ 100.00

    The globalization of trade, investment, and finance continues apace. Many have benefited from this, but deep inequalities persist. This book argues that the interconnections established by globalization make possible a critique of its inequality. For those who take seriously human dignity, equality is a basic presumption of social institutions. more...