Deviance, Conformity, and Social Control in Canada, Second Edition (2nd Edition) - Softcover

Bereska, Tami M.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0132242729 ISBN 13: 9780132242721

Publisher: Pearson Canada, 2007

Synopsis

Deviance, Conformity, and Social Control in Canada is a broad, critical introduction to the study of deviance.  Theories are covered in two updated and expanded early chapters, and Bereska then devotes the rest of the text to substantive issues of particular interest to students.  These chapters present topics that arise in everyday situations that are relevant to students’ lives, and include new sections on youth, science and physical appearance. Each topic is placed within a socio-cultural context and contributes to a bigger picture.  Both criminal and non-criminal forms of deviance are discussed in each chapter, and the role of power in the social construction of deviance explored.  For this second edition, statistics have been updated, and new visual representations of data will make it easier for students to understand and assimilate important information.

About this title

About the Author

Tami Bereska began her undergraduate work teaching career at the University of Alberta, where she was the recipient of a Faculty of Arts Graduate Student Teaching Award.  She has been at Grant MacEwan College in Edmonton, Alberta since 2000, and is currently Chair of the Sociology Department.  Her areas of specialization are deviance, youth, and popular culture.

From the Back Cover

ARE ALL YOUTH DEVIANT?  WHY IS THE DSM CLASSIFICATION OF MENTAL ILLNESS QUESTIONABLE?  WHAT IS THE UNDERLYING MESSAGE OF  A TATTOOED BODY?

 

Presenting a broad, critical introduction to the study of Deviance, both criminal and non-criminal.

 

Students will appreciate the following features:

Learning Hints and Guides throughout

  · Ask Yourself sections prompt students to think about certain questions, their own lives, or their own points of view prior to reading the next passage.

  · Exercise Your Mind has recommendations for places to go beyond the textbook to explore issues in more detail, by looking for critiques of theories or renting certain movies.

  · An Internet Moment directs students to specific sites and indicates what students should be looking for or what questions they should keep in mind while viewing.

  · Time To Review questions at regular intervals help students consolidate key points.</ITEM>

 

Topics that are relevant to students’ lives

Sexuality, youth, voluntary and involuntary physical appearance, mental disorders,

religious belief systems, and scientific belief systems. These topics graphically

illustrate that the social typing and social control of deviance occurs everywhere around

them and that they have experienced , and participated in, these processes personally.

 

Chapters that tell a cohesive and provocative story

Students are not bombarded with an assortment of facts; rather they learn

about the socio-cultural context within which particular forms of deviance have been and are

socially typed and socially controlled, and the role of power in the social construction of

deviance.

Edition details

• Publisher: Pearson Canada
• Publication date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0132242729
• ISBN 13: 9780132242721
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 368