Examining a variety of forms of deviance, this text considers two alternative viewpoints: the objectivist conception - deviance is norm-violation, and subjectivist conception - deviance is a definition. It applies both views to the differing forms of deviance examined in later chapters. For each viewpoint, both macro and micro level theories relevant to each form of deviance are presented. For each theory empirical research is reviewed with an eye towards evaluating the validity of the theory. The text stresses throughout that the definition of deviance depends on one's conception.

Social Deviance: Being, Behaving, and Branding

Politics & Social Sciences

Perrin, Robin D.

Ward, David A.

Carter, Timothy J.

Social Sciences

Allyn&Bacon

Encourages development of sociological imagination (thinking and using tools like a sociologist) in a global context. Comprehensive and research-based. Four important features: With Sociological Imagination provides in-depth analysis of a sociological ideas; Cohesion, Conflict and Meaning compares and contrasts the three primary theoretical viewpoints (structural-functionalism, conflict theory, and symbolic interactionism); Social Diversity examines issues as they apply to a multicultural America; and In Global Perspective applies sociological ideas to global issues. Internet exercises conclude each chapter.

Sociology

Stone, Lorene

Wadsworth Publishing

Encourages development of sociological imagination (thinking and using tools like a sociologist) in a global context. Comprehensive and research-based. Four important features: With Sociological Imagination provides in-depth analysis of a sociological ideas; Cohesion, Conflict and Meaning compares and contrasts the three primary theoretical viewpoints (structural-functionalism, conflict theory, and symbolic interactionism); Social Diversity examines issues as they apply to a multicultural America; and In Global Perspective applies sociological ideas to global issues. Internet exercises conclude each chapter.

Thomson Learning

Al Capone, George "Machine Gun" Kelly, Alvin Karpis, "Dock" Barker―these were just a few of the legendary "public enemies" for whom America's first supermax prison was created. In Alcatraz: The Gangster Years, David Ward brings their stories to life, along with vivid accounts of the lives of other infamous criminals who passed through the penitentiary from 1934 to 1948. Ward, who enjoyed unprecedented access to FBI, Federal Bureau of Prisons, and Federal Parole records, conducted interviews with one hundred former Alcatraz convicts, guards, and administrators to produce this definitive history of "The Rock." Alcatraz is the only book with authoritative answers to questions that have swirled about the prison: How did prisoners cope psychologically with the harsh regime? What provoked the protests and strikes? How did security flaws lead to the sensational escape attempts? And what happened when these "habitual, incorrigible" convicts were finally released? By shining a light on the most famous prison in the world, Ward also raises timely questions about today's supermax prisons.

Alcatraz: The Gangster Years

History

Americas

University of California Press

The 96th Pennsylvania Volunteers infantry regiment was formed in 1861--its ranks filled by nearly 1,200 Irish and German immigrants from Schuylkill County responding to Lincoln's call for troops. The men saw action for three years with the Army of the Potomac's VI Corps, participating in engagements at Gaines' Mill, Crampton's Gap, Salem Church and Spotsylvania. Drawing on letters, diaries, memoirs and other accounts, this comprehensive history documents their combat service from the point of view of the rank-and-file soldier, along with their views on the war, slavery, emancipation and politics.

The 96th Pennsylvania Volunteers in the Civil War

McFarland Company

The Christmas Ranch

Literature & Fiction

Xlibris

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