Unlike texts that view deviance as an -essence, - independent of the mind of the observer, Pfuhl and Henry perceive deviance, and its opposite, -normality, - as impermanent, human creations, resulting from people interacting with one another--the outcome of the antagonisms, contradictions and conflicts in society. The perspective used is identified as social constructionist: one that includes elements of interactionsts and phenomenological sociology.
This thoroughly revised and updated text offers students a study of deviance from a perspective that will correspond to their everyday experience.
- ISBN10 0202304698
- ISBN13 9780202304694
- Publish Date 31 December 1993 (first published December 1979)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 13 February 2014
- Publish Country US
- Publisher Taylor & Francis Inc
- Imprint AldineTransaction
- Edition 3rd ed.
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 281
- Language English