{"product_id":"deviant-behavior-9780367193171","title":"Deviant Behavior","description":"\u003cp\u003eDeviant Behavior offers an engaging and wide-ranging discussion of deviant behavior  beliefs  and conditions. It examines how the society defines  labels  and reacts to whatever  and whoever  falls under this stigmatizing processthereby providing a distinctly sociological approach to the phenomenon. The central focus in defining what and who is deviant is the audiencemembers of the influential social collectivities that determine the outcome of this process. The discussion in this volume encompasses both the explanatory (or positivist) approach and the constructionist (or labeling) perspectives  thereby lending a broad and inclusive vista on deviance. The central chapters in the book explore specific instances or forms of deviance  including crime  substance abuse  and mental disorder  all of which share the quality that they and their actors  believers  or bearers may be judged by these influential parties in a negative or derogatory fashion. And throughout Deviant Behavior  the author emphasizes that  to the sociologist  the term \"deviant\" is completely non-pejorative; no implication of inferiority or inherent stigma is implied; what the author emphasizes is that specific members of the societysocial circles or collectivitiesdefine and treat certain parties in a derogatory fashion; the sociologist does not share in this stigmatizing process but observes and describes it.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45648023617589,"sku":"ByrdShop_0367193175","price":69.73,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780367193171.jpg?v=1781706932","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/deviant-behavior-9780367193171","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}