The sociology of deviance: an obituary
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Abstract
Part 1 A new deal for degenerates? the sociology of social deviation 1895-1940: Durkheim, modernity and doubt the birth - immigration and the urban jungle social realism and the Godfather - degeneration, cultural diversity and the New Deal - the potent union of psychiatry and sociology - the coming of age of the sociology of deviation persistent class and cultural conflict - deviance, degeneration and social democracy. Part 2 Regulating deviance - fantasies of social control 1941-1967: beyond the frontier and into fantasyland deviance, social control and the end of ideology - McCarthyism and secondary deviance regulation as measurement and balance - the labelling perspective and the flowering of social deviance. Part 3 Crime and power - the repoliticization of moral judgment 1968-1975: resistance and resentment morality, politics and subjectivity - deviance as ideology the final collapse.