Does the death of the sociology of deviance claim make sense?

Goode, Erich

doi:10.1007/s12108-002-1014-2

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“…In his controversial, and misled (see Goode 2002), book The Sociology of Deviance: An Obituary, Sumner (1994) claimed the sociology of deviance is ''dead'' because it is no longer a viable or vital field; however, the growth of the Internet clearly presents critical avenues for the sociologists who study deviance. Because new forms of deviance (e.g., cyberstalking and cyberbullying) are constantly emerging due to the Internet, deviance will remain a lively and pertinent research topic (Durkin et al 2006;Konty 2006).…”

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There Must Be Some Type of Misunderstanding, There Must Be Some Kind of Mistake: The Deviance Disavowal Strategies of Men Arrested in Internet Sex Stings (2008 Presidential Address)

Durkin

2009

Sociological Spectrum

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Revolutionary advances in telecommunications technology have created a ''virtual world.'' There are a variety of new social phenomena associated with this novel milieu. This represents an excellent opportunity for the discipline of sociology to revisit its descriptive roots. This is especially true for the sociology of deviant behavior because new forms of deviance are clearly related to technological innovations (e.g., Internet crimes against children, cyberstalking, and cyberbullying). The current undertaking examines the deviance disavowal strategies of men arrested in Internet sex stings. The data consisted of the videotaped police interrogations of 18 subjects, about half of whom were arrested in televised stings. The results indicate these men engaged in three disavowal strategies seeking to maintain a normal definition of self and manage the stigma of their arrest. Directions for future studies in the sociology of deviance are suggested.There is a rich tradition of description in the field of sociology. Herbert Spencer's Descriptive Sociology was basically a massive compilation of purported ethnographic facts (Carneiro and Perrin 2002).

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There Must Be Some Type of Misunderstanding, There Must Be Some Kind of Mistake: The Deviance Disavowal Strategies of Men Arrested in Internet Sex Stings (2008 Presidential Address)

Durkin

2009

Sociological Spectrum

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“…Instead, Miller et al found that, during the 1990s, most citations in works on deviance are to writings by scholars who are known outside the field of deviance (many are criminologists), and that the most often cited works in the deviance literature are not recent. I address their points in another publication (Goode 2002), but at least reading their article gave me a clearer idea of what might be meant by the claim I found so wrongheaded.…”

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the macguffin that refuses to die: an investigation into the condition of the sociology of deviance

Goode

2003

Deviant Behavior

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“…Young discusses the rise and general significance of new deviancy theory, which is still being hotly debated today (Sumner, 1994;Goode, 2002;Miller et al, 2001). Although generally sympathetic toward the theory's rejection of positivist criminology and conservative thinking, Young criticizes it as 'an alternative position which is merely an inversion of the opponent's ' (1975: p. 63).…”

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Searching for the Victim in the General Sociological Literature on Crime

Woods

2006

International Review of Victimology

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In the last fifty years, the sociology of crime has been transformed by a changing ideological climate, the politicization of crime research and a greater isolation of criminology with respect to its theories, methods, organization and physical location outside of sociology departments. The objective of this paper is to explore how these changes may have influenced today's general sociological literature on crime. We begin by laying out our basic theoretical assumptions. Next, the article offers an assessment of crime's status in the sociological literature throughout the twentieth century. Finally, we move to a more detailed analysis of the current research on crime. We analyze four consecutive issues from 31 general sociology journals published in 2003–2004. A thematic distinction is drawn between articles that focus on the perpetrators of crime and articles that highlight the effects of crime on its victims. After substantiating and refining this distinction, we identify where most of the articles belong in this typology and explain why our findings are important to anyone interested in the study of crime.

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Does the death of the sociology of deviance claim make sense?

Cited by 31 publications

References 8 publications

There Must Be Some Type of Misunderstanding, There Must Be Some Kind of Mistake: The Deviance Disavowal Strategies of Men Arrested in Internet Sex Stings (2008 Presidential Address)

There Must Be Some Type of Misunderstanding, There Must Be Some Kind of Mistake: The Deviance Disavowal Strategies of Men Arrested in Internet Sex Stings (2008 Presidential Address)

the macguffin that refuses to die: an investigation into the condition of the sociology of deviance

Searching for the Victim in the General Sociological Literature on Crime

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