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This sociology of deviance textbook draws on up-to-date scholarship across a spectrum of deviance categories, providing a symbolic interactionist analysis of the deviance process. The book addresses positivistic theories of deviant behavior within a more encompassing description of the deviance proc

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Deviance: Social Constructions and Blurred Boundaries is an engaging textbook that--as opposed to the mainstream approach of getting lost in the details--emphasizes the big, fundamental questions and approaches, and does so in a manner that is both intelligent and accessible. Study and review questions in the text are important--in terms of appropriate description and analysis. The structure of the textbook itself serves much the same purpose-- students need ample reinforcement of key ideas. -- Richard Taradancino, Professor of Global and Sociocultural Studies, Florida International University The teaching of deviance always seems to border on the voyeuristic in many texts. Anderson has done a great job avoiding that here. The material presented in the textbook will be accessible to undergraduates. It has the potential to generate good discussions in the classroom. Additionally, I enjoyed how Anderson addresses the topics in a way that isn't blindly critical of the hegemonic images of the body in our culture but at the same time doesn't take them for granted. -- Jack Spencer, Professor of Sociology, Purdue University