Deviance and Identity

by John Lofland

Book cover: Deviance and Identity

Extent: 362 pages

Publisher: Percheron Press

Subjects: Social Sciences 

Series: Foundations of Sociology

Language: English

Paperback (Published)

(July 2002)

ISBN: 9780971242791

Price: $47.50

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PDF (Published)

(December 2002)

ISBN: 9798986386126

Price: $38.00

The sociology of deviance was in its heyday when Prentice-Hall published this book in 1969. John Lofland traces the field from pre-World War II to the late sixties and pioneers the application of “grounded theory” to the study of deviant behavior. In his new prologue, Joel Best writes, “More than thirty years after the book first appeared, we have no better synthesis of the labeling approach.”

Prologue to the Percheron Press Edition Joel Best Chapter 1. Introduction: Ideological Matters Chapter 2. Introduction: Logical Matters I. The Deviant Act Chapter 3. The Defensive Deviant Act: Threat and Encapsulation Chapter 4. The Defensive Deviant Act: Closure Chapter 5. The Adventurous Deviant Act II. The Assumption of Deviant Identity Chapter 6. Social Identification as Pivotally Deviant Chapter 7. Escalation to Deviant Identity: Others and Places Chapter 8. Escalation to Deviant Identity: Hardware and Actor III. The Assumption of Normal Identity Chapter 9. Social Identification as Pivotally Normal Chapter 10. Escalation to Normal Identity: Others and Places Chapter 11. Escalation to Normal Identity: Hardware and Actor Chapter 12. Concluding Remarks Bibliographic Index

  • By (author) John Lofland

"[A]n attempt to systematize, elaborate, and extend-occasionally with insight and imagination-the concepts generated by Goffman's sociology of everyday life." John I. Kitsuse in American Sociological Review "At a time when the field of deviance is being flooded by redundant books of readings, it is most refreshing to encounter a theoretically oriented work which attempts to bring together and synthesize some of the currently popular literature in this area." Steven G. Lubeck in Social Forces "[B]elong[s] to a current and dominant trend in modern sociology which places deviance in its natural and total cultural context." Marvin K. Opler in American Journal of Sociology
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