Deviance and Liberty: Social Problems and Public PolicyRoutledge, 6. 2. 2018 - 446 strán (strany) Deviance is by definition a social problem. Since deviant behavior violates the normative expectations of a given group, deviance must be regarded as a problem for that group, since all groups of people want their norms to be enforced. Many modern societies place considerable value on personal liberty, so much so that interference with personal choices to deviate from group norms can be justified only in terms of the potential damage that particular kinds of behavior might do to the legitimate interests of others. Sociological research suggests that the social problem associated with deviance is often the behavior of individuals who violate norms cannot be justified in terms of basic values of liberty, social order, or justice. In other kinds of deviance, though, the social problem is that people or, in a more organized way, social institutions, interfere with individual liberty and self-realization. Each selection in this volume has been chosen to cover a full range of substantive problematic issues, a range of social science perspectives that can be brought to bear on issues of all kinds, and a range of social science methodologies used in studying modern society. 'Deviance and Liberty' is divided up into thirty-nine contributions and five main parts ranging from "Modern Perspectives on Deviance and Social Problems"; "Deviant Exchanges: Gambling, Drugs, and Sex"; "Deviant Personal Control: Illness, Violence, and Crime; Deviance, Identity, and the Life Cycle"; and "Moral Enterprise and Moral Enforcement." It is a welcome addition to the libraries of those interested in the study of deviance or society as a whole. |
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... persons as a deviation from some social norm which they cherish.” This definition offered by Richard C. Fuller and Richard R. Myers some 30 years ago characterizes with considerable economy the kinds of issues sociologists typically ...
Social Problems and Public Policy Lee Rainwater. up when persons engaged in a given kind of deviant behavior spend considerable time with each other is as much a product of their cooperative endeavor to defend themselves against the ...
... persons who undertake to publicize and dramatize situations which they and perhaps only a small group of others see as a problem. The most dramatic example of this kind in recent times is that of Rachel Carson, whose book, Silent Spring ...
... persons, but Jane Mercer shows in Selection 23 that eventually the problem must be redefined in more complicated terms: How can society help the small proportion of severely mentally retarded persons without at the same time damaging ...
... person's position in society. He may be jailed or hospitalized, certified as a full-time deviant, despite the fact that only a fraction of his behavior was in any way unusual or dangerous. The community has taken note of a few scattered ...
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