Reading List

Sociology 3320

Spring 2002

I. GENERAL DEFINITIONS AND THEORIES OF DEVIANT BEHAVIOR.

1. What Is Deviant Behavior?

2. Positivist Theories: Explaining Deviance.

3. Constructionist Theories: Understanding Deviance.

II. SPECIFIC FORMS OF DEVIANT BEHAVIOR.

4. Physical Violence.

5. Rape and Child Molestation.

Material above this line will be on Exam 1

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6. Family Violence.

7. Suicide.

8. Mental Disorder.

9. Heterosexual Deviance.

10. Homosexuality and Homophobia.

11. Drug Use.

Material above this line will be on Exam 2

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12. Drinking and Alcoholism.

13. White-Collar and Governmental Deviance.

14. Disreputable Economic Deviance.