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Item Details
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SOCIOLOGY OF DEVIANCE: AN OBITUARY
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| By: |
Colin S. Sumner |
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Electronic book text |
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£3.95 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0957024134 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780957024137 |
| Publisher: |
CRIMETALK BOOKS |
| Pub. date: |
5 July, 2012 |
| Synopsis: |
This book charts the rise and fall of a field of enquiry. It investigates and documents the ideas underpinning its rise out of the late 1930's to popularity as part of a critique of heavy-handed authority in the effervescent sociology of the 1960's. Deviance was an area of social scientific research, a psychiatric-sounding term of social censure, and a conceptual playpen for the culturally defiant. It began as a generic term for behaviour breaking social norms but ended its life when revealed as a selective and incoherent censure, for example, of the adolescent, the damaged, the bohemian, the delinquent, the emotional, and the socialistic; a censure with the power to recycle endless variants of the feared 'other' to feed the many moral panics of an insecure society. It was superceded in the 1980's by the author's concept of social censure. Drawing on Sumner's earlier analysis in Reading Ideologies, this history tries to avoid a reduction of this key sociological concept to any one underlying factor and holds firm to a belief in multiple and overlapping causal conditions for its existence.Hence, the idea of social deviance is sympathetically analysed as a defining concept of a modernity constantly engaged in differentiation, labelling and individuation. To this end the book focusses on the logic of the idea itself, its situated meaning in a tormented century, its actualization in research and debate, and, in a unique thread running throughout, its development compared with major movements in the history of modern art. The English edition of the book in 1994 used an image of Picasso's Desmoiselles d'Avignon on the front cover, as well as an ironic quote from that great artist to close the text. |
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UK |
| Imprint: |
CrimeTalk Books |
| Returns: |
Non-returnable |
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