Deviance Comprehensive Exam Reading List

DEVIANCE COMPREHENSIVE EXAM READING LIST

SOCIOLOGY (PHD)

KentStateUniversity – University of Akron

MAJOR

THEORY AND SOCIO-HISTORICAL

Adler, P.A., & Adler, P. (2005). Constructions of deviance: Social power context, and

Interaction, 5th edition (Chapters 1,12, 17, 21, 25, 27, 33, 35-36, & 39). Belmont, CA: Wadsworth.

Becker, H. S. (1963). Outsiders: Studies in the sociology of deviance. New York:Free Press.

Best, J., & Luckenbill, D. (1980). The social organization of deviants. Social Problems, 28, 14-31.

Conrad, P., & Schnieder, J. W. (1992). Deviance and medicalization: From badness to sickness(Chapters 1-2, 8, 9). TemplePress.

Garland, D. (1990). Punishment and modern society: A study in social theory. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Goode, E. (1975). On behalf of labeling theory. Social Problems, 22, 570-583.

Pfohl, S. (1977). The ‘discovery’ of child abuse. Social Problems, 24, 310-323.

Pfohl, S. (1994). Images of deviance and social control: A sociological history (2nded.). McGraw Hill.

Platt, A. (1969). The rise of the child-saving movement: A study in policy and correctional

reform. The Annals of the AmericanAcademy of Political and Social Science,

381, 21-38.

Quinney, R. (2000). Socialist humanism and the problem of crime: Thinkingabout Erich

Fromm in the development of critical/peacemaking criminology. InK. Anderson

& R. Quinney (Eds.), Erich Fromm and critical criminology: Beyond the punitive

society (pp. 21-30). Chicago: University of Illinois Press.

CLASSICAL

Becker, H. S. (1967). Whose side are we on? Social Problems, 14, 23947.

Berger, P. (1963). The meaning of social controls. In Invitation to sociology: A

humanistic perspective (pp. 66-92). Doubleday.

Durkheim, E. (1951).Suicide.Glencoe, IL: Free Press.

Erikson, K. T. (1963). Notes on the sociology of deviance. Social Problems, 9, 307-314.

Erikson, K. T. (1966).Wayward Puritans:A study in the sociology of deviance (Chapters 2 & 5).New York: John Wiley and Sons.

Garfinkle, H. (1956). Conditions of successful degradation ceremonies. American Journal of Sociology. 61, 402-24.

Goffman, E. (1959). The moral career of the mental patient. Psychiatry, 22, 123-142.

Goffman, E. (1961). Asylums: Essays on the social situations of mental patients and other inmates. Chicago, IL: Aldine Publishing.

Goffman, E. (1963). Stigma:Notes on the management of spoiled identity. New York: Spectrum.

Gusfield, J. (1967). Moral passage: The symbolic process in public designations of deviance.Social Problems, 15, 175188.

Janowitz, M. (1975). Sociological theory and social control. American Journal of Sociology, 81, 82-108.

Kitsuse, J. (1962). Societal reaction to deviant behavior: Problems of theory and method. Social Problems, 9, 247-256.

Matza, D. (1969). Becoming deviant. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall.

Mead, G. H. (1918). The psychology of punitive justice. American Journal of Sociology, 23, 577-602.

Schur, E. (1969). Reactions to deviance: A critical assessment. American Journal of Sociology, 75, 309-322.

Spitzer, S. (1975). Toward a Marxian theory of deviance. Social Problems, 22, 638- 651.

Sykes, G., & Matza, D. (1957). Techniques of neutralization. American Sociological Review, 22, 664-670.

Tonry, M., & Reiss, A. J. (1993). Beyond the law: Crime in complex organizations. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. (Chapters by Braithwaite; Yeager; and Zimring & Hawkins).

METHODS

Anderson, L., & Calhoun, T. (1992). Facilitative aspects of field research with deviant street populations. Sociological Inquiry, 62, 490-498.

Bourgois, P. (2002). In search of respect (2nd ed) (Chapters 4, 5, & 9). Cambridge Press.

Chapple, C., & Nofziger, S. (2000). Bingo!:Hints of deviance in the accounts of sociability and profit of Bingo players. Deviant Behavior, 21, 489-517.

Durkheim, E. (1938). Rules for the distinction of the normal from the pathological. In W. D. Hall, The rules of sociological method. New York: Free Press.

Haynie, D., & Osgood, D. W. (2005). Reconsidering peers and delinquency: How do peers matter? Social Forces, 84, 1109-1130.

Humphries, L. (1975). Tearoom trade: Impersonal sex in public places (Chapters 2 & 8).

Chicago, IL: Aldine Transaction.

Jussim, L, & Osgood, D. W. (1989). Influence and similarity among friends: An integrative model applied to incarcerated adolescents. Social Psychology Quarterly, 52, 98- 112.

Osgood, D.W., et al. (2002). Analyzing multiple-item measures of crime and deviance I: Item response theory. Journal of Quantitative Criminology, 18, 267-96.

Osgood, D.W., et al. (2002). Analyzing multiple-item measures of crime and deviance II:

Tobit regression. Journal of Quantitative Criminology, 18, 319-47.

Kempf, K. (1990). Measurement issues in criminology. New York: Springer-Verlag.

Spector, M., & Kitsuse, J. I. (1977). Constructing social problems (Chapters 1, 5, & 6). MenloPark, CA: Cummings.

Steffensmeier, D. J., & Terry, R.M. (1973). Deviance and respectability – observational

study of reactions to shoplifting. Social Forces, 51, 417-426.

Terry, R. M., & Steffensmier, D. J. (1988). Conceptual and theoretical issues in the study of deviance. Deviant Behavior, 9, 55-76.

Whyte, W. F. (1943). Street corner society: The social structure of an Italian slum. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

CRITIQUE OF THE FIELD

Best, J. (2004). Deviance: Career of a concept. Wadsworth.

Goode, E. (2003). The MacGuffin that refuses to die: An investigation into the condition of the sociology of deviance, Deviant Behavior, 24, 507-533.

Galliher, J. F. (1991). Deviant behavior and human rights (Introduction, Mills, Gouldner, Liazos,Schwendinger and Schwendinger, Chambliss, Griffin, Mintz). Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall.

Sumner, Colin. (1994). The sociology of deviance: An obituary. London: Open University Press.

DRUGS AND ALCOHOL

Adler, P. A., & Adler, P. (1983). Shifts and oscillations in deviant careers: The case of upper-level drug dealers and smugglers. Social Problems, 31, 195-207.

Duster, T. (1970). Thelegislation of morality: Law, drugs, and moral judgment. New York: Free Press.

Gusfield, J. R. (1963). Symbolic crusade: Status politics and the American temperance movement. Urbana, Il: University of Illinois Press.

Huselid, R. F., & Cooper, L. M. (1992). Gender roles as mediators of sex differences in adolescent alcohol use and abuse. Journal of Health and Social Behavior, 33, 348- 62.

MacAndrew, C., & Edgerton, R. B. (1969). Drunken comportment: A social explanation

(Chapters 1-2, 5-6). Los Angeles, CA: University of California.

Musto, David F. (1999). The American disease: Origins of narcotic control. Oxford, OxfordUniversity Press.

Orcutt, J. (1978). Deviance as a situated phenomenon: Variations in the social interpretation of marijuana and alcohol use. Social Problems, 22, 346-356.

Reinarman. C., & Levine, H. G. (1989). Crack in context: Politics and media in the making of a drug scare. Contemporary Drug Problems, 16, 535-577.

Wiseman, J. P. (1991). The other half: Wives of alcoholics and their social psychological situation. New York, NY. Aldine De Gruyter.

RACE, ETHNICITY, GENDER, AND SEXUALITY

Cooper, M. (1990). Rejecting femininity: Some research notes on gender identity development in lesbians. Deviant Behavior, 11, 371-80.

Fausto-Sterling, A. (2000). The five sexes, revisited. Sciences, 40, 18-23.

Gustavsson, N., & MacEachron, A. (1997). Criminalizing women's behavior. Journal of Drug Issues, 27, 673-687.

Joe, K., & Chesney-Lind, M. (1995). Just every mothers angel: An analysis of gender and

ethnic variations in youth gang membership. Gender & Society, 9, 408-31.

Messerschmidt, J. W. (1993). Masculinitiesand crime: Critique and reconceptualization of theory (Chapters 1-3). Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.

Peralta, R. L. (2005). Race and the culture of college drinking: An analysis of White privilege on a college campus. In W. R. Palacios (Ed.), Cocktails & dreams: An interpretive perspective on substance use (pp. 127-141). New Jersey, Prentice-Hall.

Schur, E. M. (1984). Labeling women deviant: Gender, stigma, and social control. New York: McGraw Hill.

Wallace, J. M., & Bachman, J. G. (1991). Explaining racial/ethnic differences in

adolescent drug use: The impact of background and lifestyle.Social Problems,

38, 333-337.

Zatz, M. S. (1987).Chicano youth gangs and crime: The creation of a moral panic.

Contemporary Crisis, 11, 129-158.Extended:

MENTAL ILLNESS

Avison, W. R., McLeod, J., & Pescosolido, B. (Eds.)(2007). Mental health, social mirror.

(Chapters: Classical Sociological Theory, Evolutionary Psychology, and Mental Health – Contemporary Social Theory and the Sociological Study of Mental Health - Class Relations, Economic Inequality and Mental Health: Why Social Class Matters to the Sociology of Mental Health - Race and Mental Health: Past Debates, New Opportunities - Stigma and the Sociological Enterprise). New York: Springer- Verlag.

Gove, W. R. (1970). Societal reaction as an explanation of mental illness: An evaluation.

American Sociological Review, 35, 873-884.

Link, B.G., Cullen, F. T., Struening, E., Shrout, P., & Dohrenwend, B.P. (1989). A modified labeling theory approach to mental disorders: An empirical assessment. American Sociological Review, 54, 400-423.

Link, B.G., & Phelan, J. C. (2001). Conceptualizing stigma. Annual Review of Sociology, 27, 363-385.

Szasz, T. (1974). The myth of mental illness (rev. ed.). New York: Harper & Row.

Turner, R., & Edgley, C. (1983). From witchcraft to drugcraft: Biochemistry as mythology. SocialScience Journal, 20, 1-12.

ORGANIZATIONAL DEVIANCE

Clinard, M., & Yeager, P. (1980). The culture of the corporation and illegal behavior. In Corporate crime (pp. 58-73). The Free Press.

Ermann, M. D., & Lundman, R. J. (2002). Corporate and governmental deviance: Problems of organizational behavior in contemporary society (6th ed.) (Chapters 1-

3, 5, & 11). New York, NY: OxfordUniversity Press.

Gareau, F. H. (2004). State terrorism and the United States: From counterinsurgency to the war on terrorism (Chapters1, 8, & 10). Atlanta: Clarity Press.

Lee, M. T., & Ermann, M. D. Pinto madness as a flawed landmark narrative: An

organizational and network analysis. Social Problems, 46, 30-47.

Passas, N. (1990). Anomie and corporate deviance. Contemporary Crisis, 14, 157-178.

Vaughan, D. (1996). The challenger launch decision: Risky technology, culture, and deviance at NASA. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

FAMILY VIOLENCE

Dobash, R.E., & Dobash, R.P. (1979). Violence against Wives. New York: Free Press.

Felson, Richard B., & Steven F. Messner. (2000). The control motive and intimate partner violence. Social Psychology Quarterly, 63, 86-94.

Field, C. A., & Caetano, R. (2004). Ethnic differences in intimate partner violence in the U.S. General Population. Trauma, Violence, and Abuse, 5, 303-317.

Johnson, M. P. (1995). Patriarchal terrorism and common couple violence: Two forms of violence against women. Journal of Marriage and the Family, 57, 283-294.

STREET CRIME AND DELINQUENCY

Anderson, E. (1990). Streetwise. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Barak, G. (2003). Violence and nonviolence: Pathways to understanding. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

Bowditch, C. (1993). Getting rid of troublemakers: High school disciplinary procedures and the production of dropouts. Social Problems, 40, 493-509.

Gaines, D. (1991). Teenage wasteland: Suburbia’s dead end kids. New York, NY. Harper

Collins Publishers.

Katz, J. (1988). Seductions of crime: Moral and sensual attractions in doing evil (pp. 3- 113). New York: Basic Books.

LaFree, G. (1998). Losing legitimacy: Street crime and the decline of social institutions in America. Boulder, CO: Westview Press.

Quinney, R. (1970). The social reality of crime. Boston: Little, Brown and Company.

VIOLENCE

Boswell, A. A., & Spade, J. Z. (1996). Fraternities and collegiate rape culture: Why are more fraternities more dangerous places for women? Gender & Society, 10, 133- 148.

Gelles, R. (1993). Through a sociological lens: Social structure and familyviolence. In R. Gelles & D. Loseke (Eds.), Current Controversies on Family Violence (pp. 31- 46). Sage.

Martin, P. Y., & Hummer, R. (1989). Fraternities and rape on campus. Gender & Society, 3, 457-473.

McNulty, T, & Bellair, P. (2003). Explaining racial and ethnic differences in adolescent

violence: Structural disadvantage, family well being, and social capital. Justice Quarterly, 20, 1-32.

Peralta, R. L., & Cruz. J. M. (2006). Conferring meaning onto alcohol-related violence: An analysis of alcohol use and masculinity in a sample of college students. Journal of Men’s Studies, 14, 109-125.

Scully, D., & Marolla, J. (1984). Convicted rapists’ vocabulary of motive: Excuses and justifications. Social Problems, 31, 530-544.

CAREER CONCEPT/IDENTITY

Snow, D. A., & Anderson, L. (1987). Identity work among the homeless: The verbal construction and avowal of personal identities. American Journal of Sociology, 92, 1336-1371.

MEDIA

Callanan, Valerie, J. (2005). Feeding the fear of crime: Crime related media and support for three strikes (Chapters 1-3 & 7). New York, NY: LFB Scholarly PublishingLLC.

Glassner, B. (1999). The culture of fear. (Introduction, Chapter 1 & 9).New York: Basic Books.

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