Exam 4: Defining Deviance Down, Daniel Moynihan

In the face of "defining deviancy down," Moynihan suggests that we should ______.

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Moynihan's normalizing method refers to ______.

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Moynihan's opportunistic method refers to ______.

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"Over the past generation, since the time Erickson wrote, the amount of deviant behavior in American society has increased beyond the levels a community can "afford to recognize" and that, accordingly, we have been re-defining deviancy so as to exempt much conduct previously stigmatized." What does Moynihan mean by this? Which deviance scholars is he responding to and what evidence does he provide to counter their claims?

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According to Moynihan, the deinstitutionalization of mentally ill patients is an example of ______.

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Moynihan's methods of redefining deviance do NOT include ______.

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Exam 4: Defining Deviance Down, Daniel Moynihan

In the face of "defining deviancy down," Moynihan suggests that we should ______.

Moynihan's normalizing method refers to ______.

Moynihan's opportunistic method refers to ______.

According to Moynihan, the deinstitutionalization of mentally ill patients is an example of ______.

Moynihan's methods of redefining deviance do NOT include ______.

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Notes on the Sociology of Deviance, Kai Terikson

Definitions of Deviance and Deviance and the Responses of Others From Outsiders, Howard Sbecker

Onnections: Definitions of Deviance and the Case of Underage Drinking and Drunk Driving, Tammy Landerson,

Social Structure and Anomie, Robert Merton

Homeboys, New Jacks, and Anomie, John Mhagedorn

A General Strain Theory of Community Differences in Crime Rates, Robert Agnew

Connections: Understanding Doping in Elite Sports Through Anomie and General Strain Perspectives, Tammy Landerson

Introduction and Growth of Chicago and Differentiation of Local Areas From Juvenile Delinquency and Urban Areas, Clifford Rshaw and Henry Dmcka

Collective Efficacy Theory: Lessons Learned and Directions for Future Inquiry, Robert Jsampson

The Urban Ecology of Bias Crime: A Study of Disorganized and Defended Neighborhoods, Ryken Gratte

Connections: The Prison Community From a Social Disorganization and Collective Efficacy Perspective, Lori Sexton

Social Pathology: A Systematic Approach to the Theory of Sociopathic Behavior, Edwin Lemert

Whatever Happened to Social Pathology Conceptual Fashions and the Sociology of Deviance, Joel Best

The Shifting Engines of Medicalization, Peter Conrad

Connections: Mental Illness As Degeneracy and Disease, Victor Perez

Beyond Mead: The Societal Reaction to Deviance, Edwin Wlemert

Edgework: A Social Psychological Analysis of Voluntary Risk Taking, Stephen Lyng

Resistance As Edgework in Violent Intimate Relationships of Drug-Involved Women, Rajah Valli

Connections: Labeling, Resistance and Edgework Through Parkour, John Jbrent,

Stigma and Social Identity From Stigma, Erving Goffman

Why Do People Get Tattoos, Miliann Kang and Katherine Jones

Big Handsome Men, Bears and Others: Virtual Constructions of Fat Male Embodiment, Lee Fmonaghan

Onnections: Explaining Body Deviance With Stigma and Carnival of the Grotesque, David Lane

Kinds of Deviance: A Sequential Model From Outsiders, Howard Sbecker

Crime and Deviance in the Lifecourse, Robert Sampson and John Laub

Weighing the Consequences of a Deviant Career: Factors Leading to an Exit From Prostitution, Sharon Oselin

Connections: Understanding Street Prostitution From Deviant Career and Life-Course Criminology Perspectives, Emily Bonistall and Kevin Ralston

Eviance and Moral Panics From Folk Devils and Moral Panics, Stanley Cohen

Moral Panics: Culture, Politics, and Social Construction, Erich Goode and Nachman Ben-Yehuda

Moral Panic Versus the Risk Society: the Implications of the Changing Sites of Social Anxiety, Sheldon Ungar

Connections: Amoral Panics and Risk in Contemporary Drug and Viral Pandemic Claims, Philip Rkavanaugh and Rjmaratea,

Child Saving Movement in Illinois From the Child Savers: the Invention of Delinquency, Anthony Mplatt

The Hyper-Criminalization of Black and Latino Male Youth in the Era of Mass Incarceration, Victor Rios

Reforming Education Through Crime From Governing Through Crime, Jonathan Simon

Connections: The Social Control of Youth Across Institutional Spheres, Aaron Kupchik

Coming Out All Over: Deviants and the Politics of Social Problems, John Ikitsuse

There Goes the Gayborhood, Amin Ghaziani

Queer Presences and Absences: Citizenship, Community, Diversityor Death, Yvette Taylor

Connections: Hiv and Bug Chasers Across Queer Collectives, Holly Swan and Laura Monico

Deviance As Resistance

The Battle of Los Angeles

I Was Aggressive for the Streets, Pretty for the Pictures

Connections: Marginality, Identity and Music Scenes, Tammy Landerson

The Medicalization of Unhappiness, Ronald Wdworkin

Civilizing Technologies and the Control of Deviance, Scott Vrecko

Connections : Biomedicalization of Drug Addiction and the Reproduction of Inequality, Tammy Landerson and Philip Kavanaugh

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