DEVIANCE COMPREHENSIVE EXAM READING LIST
SOCIOLOGY (PHD)
Kent State University – University of Akron
MINOR
THEORY AND SOCIO-HISTORICAL
Becker, H. S. (1963). Outsiders: Studies in the sociology of deviance. New York: Free
Press.
Best, J., & Luckenbill, D. (1980). The social organization of deviants. Social Problems, 28,
14-31.
Conrad, P., & Schnieder, J. W. (1992). Deviance and medicalization: From badness to
sickness(Chapters 1-2, 8, 9). Temple Press.
Garland, D. (1990). Punishment and modern society: A study in social theory. Chicago:
University of Chicago Press.
Pfohl, S. (1994). Images of deviance and social control: A sociological history (2nd ed.).
McGraw Hill.
Platt, A. (1969). The rise of the child-saving movement: A study in policy and correctional
reform. The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science,
381, 21-38.
CLASSICAL
Durkheim, E. (1951). Suicide. Glencoe, IL: Free Press.
Erikson, K. T. (1963). Notes on the sociology of deviance. Social Problems, 9, 307-314.
Erikson, K. T. (1966). Wayward Puritans: A study in the sociology of deviance
(Chapters 2 & 5). New York: John Wiley and Sons.
Garfinkle, H. (1956). Conditions of successful degradation ceremonies. American Journal
of Sociology. 61, 402-24.
Goffman, E. (1963). Stigma: Notes on the management of spoiled identity. New York:
Spectrum.
Kitsuse, J. (1962). Societal reaction to deviant behavior: Problems of theory and method.
Social Problems, 9, 247-256.
Matza, D. (1969). Becoming deviant. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall.
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Mead, G. H. (1918). The psychology of punitive justice. American Journal of Sociology, 23,
577-602.
Schur, E. (1969). Reactions to deviance: A critical assessment. American Journal of
Sociology, 75, 309-322.
Spitzer, S. (1975). Toward a Marxian theory of deviance. Social Problems, 22, 638651.
METHODS
Anderson, L., & Calhoun, T. (1992). Facilitative aspects of field research with deviant street
populations. Sociological Inquiry, 62, 490-498.
Bourgois, P. (2002). In search of respect (2nd ed) (Chapters 4, 5, & 9). Cambridge Press.
Durkheim, E. (1938). Rules for the distinction of the normal from the pathological. In W.
D. Hall, The rules of sociological method. New York: Free Press.
Humphries, L. (1975). Tearoom trade: Impersonal sex in public places (Chapters 2 & 8).
Chicago, IL: Aldine Transaction.
Spector, M., & Kitsuse, J. I. (1977). Constructing social problems (Chapters 1, 5, & 6).
Menlo Park, CA: Cummings.
Steffensmeier, D. J., & Terry, R.M. (1973). Deviance and respectability – observational
study of reactions to shoplifting. Social Forces, 51, 417-426.
CRITIQUE OF THE FIELD
Best, J. (2004). Deviance: Career of a concept. Wadsworth.
Galliher, J. F. (1991). Deviant behavior and human rights (Introduction, Mills, Gouldner,
Liazos, Schwendinger and Schwendinger, Chambliss, Griffin, Mintz). Englewood
Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall.
Sumner, Colin. (1994). The sociology of deviance: An obituary. London: Open
University Press.
DRUGS AND ALCOHOL
Adler, P. A., & Adler, P. (1983). Shifts and oscillations in deviant careers: The case of
upper-level drug dealers and smugglers. Social Problems, 31, 195-207.
Duster, T. (1970). The legislation of morality: Law, drugs, and moral judgment. New
York: Free Press.
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Musto, David F. (1999). The American disease: Origins of narcotic control. Oxford,
Oxford University Press.
Gusfield, J. R. (1963). Symbolic crusade: Status politics and the American temperance
movement. Urbana, Il: University of Illinois Press.
RACE, ETHNICITY, GENDER, AND SEXUALITY
Cooper, M. (1990). Rejecting femininity: Some research notes on gender identity
development in lesbians. Deviant Behavior, 11, 371-80.
Fausto-Sterling, A. (2000). The five sexes, revisited. Sciences, 40, 18-23.
Gustavsson, N., & MacEachron, A. (1997). Criminalizing women's behavior. Journal of
Drug Issues, 27, 673-687.
Joe, K., & Chesney-Lind, M. (1995). Just every mothers angel: An analysis of gender and
ethnic variations in youth gang membership. Gender & Society, 9, 408-31.
Messerschmidt, J. W. (1993). Masculinities and crime: Critique and reconceptualization of
theory (Chapters 1-3). Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Peralta, R. L. (2005). Race and the culture of college drinking: An analysis of White
privilege on a college campus. In W. R. Palacios (Ed.), Cocktails & dreams: An
interpretive perspective on substance use (pp. 127-141). New Jersey, Prentice-Hall.
Schur, E. M. (1984). Labeling women deviant: Gender, stigma, and social control. New
York: McGraw Hill.
Wallace, J. M., & Bachman, J. G. (1991). Explaining racial/ethnic differences in
adolescent drug use: The impact of background and lifestyle. Social Problems,
38, 333-337.
Zatz, M. S. (1987). Chicano youth gangs and crime: The creation of a moral panic.
Contemporary Crisis, 11, 129-158.Extended:
MENTAL ILLNESS
Avison, W. R., McLeod, J., & Pescosolido, B. (Eds.) (2007). Mental health, social mirror.
(Chapters: Classical Sociological Theory, Evolutionary Psychology, and Mental
Health – Contemporary Social Theory and the Sociological Study of Mental Health Class Relations, Economic Inequality and Mental Health: Why Social Class Matters
to the Sociology of Mental Health - Race and Mental Health: Past Debates, New
Opportunities - Stigma and the Sociological Enterprise). New York: SpringerVerlag.
Link, B.G., & Phelan, J. C. (2001). Conceptualizing stigma. Annual Review of Sociology,
27, 363-385.
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Szasz, T. (1974). The myth of mental illness (rev. ed.). New York: Harper & Row.
ORGANIZATIONAL DEVIANCE
Clinard, M., & Yeager, P. (1980). The culture of the corporation and illegal behavior. In
Corporate crime (pp. 58-73). The Free Press.
Vaughan, D. (1996). The challenger launch decision: Risky technology, culture, and
deviance at NASA. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
FAMILY VIOLENCE
Dobash, R.E., & Dobash, R.P. (1979). Violence against Wives. New York: Free Press.
Felson, Richard B., & Steven F. Messner. (2000). The control motive and intimate partner
violence. Social Psychology Quarterly, 63, 86-94.
Field, C. A., & Caetano, R. (2004). Ethnic differences in intimate partner violence in the
U.S. General Population. Trauma, Violence, and Abuse, 5, 303-317.
Johnson, M. P. (1995). Patriarchal terrorism and common couple violence: Two forms of
violence against women. Journal of Marriage and the Family, 57, 283-294.
STREET CRIME AND DELINQUENCY
Anderson, E. (1990). Streetwise. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Barak, G. (2003). Violence and nonviolence: Pathways to understanding. Thousand Oaks,
CA: Sage.
Katz, J. (1988). Seductions of crime: Moral and sensual attractions in doing evil (pp. 3113). New York: Basic Books.
LaFree, G. (1998). Losing legitimacy: Street crime and the decline of social institutions
in America. Boulder, CO: Westview Press.
Quinney, R. (1970). The social reality of crime. Boston: Little, Brown and Company.
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