Deviance: Career of a Concept

by Joel Best

One of America's foremost experts on deviance, Joel Best, explores the history of the study of deviance in this short, highly accessible supplementary text. Joel Best covers the emergence of anomie theory in the 1950s, the rise of labeling theory in the 1960s, and the shifts in the field as it came under criticism from other theoretical perspectives.

Genres: Sociology, Nonfiction

112 pages, Paperback

First published April 18, 2003

Reviews

[Lori · Rating 2 out of 5]

Meh. This is not an aspect of the subject in which I am particularly interested.