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Mental Retardation
The term mental retardation (MR) is currently one of two terms widely employed that refers to a disability in individuals based on three diagnostic criteria: (1) significant limitations in intellectual functioning, (2) limitations in adaptive behavior as ...
- Crime, Property
- Crime, Sex
- Crime, Violent
- Crime, White-Collar/Corporate
- Defining Deviance
- Changing Deviance Designations
- Cognitive Deviance
- Conformity
- Constructionist Definitions of Social Problems
- Death of Sociology of Deviance
- Defining Deviance
- Folk Crime
- Hegemony
- Homecomer
- Marginality
- Medicalization of Deviance
- Normal Deviance
- Normalization
- Norms and Societal Expectations
- Positive Deviance
- Positivist Definitions of Deviance
- Primary and Secondary Deviance
- Secret Deviance
- Social Change and Deviance
- Solitary Deviance
- Stranger
- Taboo
- Urban Legends
- Deviance in Social Institutions
- Deviant Subcultures
- Biker Gangs
- Body Modification
- Cockfighting
- Cosplay and Fandom
- Cults
- Dogfighting
- Drag Queens and Kings
- Eunuchs
- Female Bodybuilding
- Fortune-Telling
- Gangs, Street
- Goth Subculture
- Hooliganism
- Metal Culture
- Nudism
- Professional Wrestling
- Punk Subculture
- Rave Culture
- Roller Derby
- Satanism
- Skinheads
- Straight Edge
- Suspension
- Vegetarianism and Veganism
- Discrimination
- Drug Use and Abuse
- Age and Drug Use
- Alcohol and Crime
- Club Drugs
- Cocaine
- Decriminalization and Legalization
- Designer Drugs
- Drug Dependence Treatment
- Drug Normalization
- Drug Policy
- Drug War (War on Drugs)
- Gender and Drug Use
- Heroin
- Legal Highs
- Marijuana
- Methamphetamine
- Performance-Enhancing Drugs
- Prescription Drug Misuse
- Race/Ethnicity and Drug Use
- Socioeconomic Status and Drug Use
- Tobacco and Cigarettes
- Marriage and Family Deviance
- Measuring Deviance
- Mental and Physical Disabilities
- Methodology for Studying Deviance
- Autoethnography
- Collecting Data Online
- Cross-Cultural Methodology
- Edge Ethnography
- Ethics and Deviance Research
- Ethnography and Deviance
- Institutional Review Boards and Studying Deviance
- Interviews
- Participant Observation
- Qualitative Methods in Studying Deviance
- Quantitative Methods in Studying Deviance
- Self-Report Surveys
- Triangulation
- Self-Destructive Deviance
- Sexual Deviance
- Autoerotic Asphyxiation
- Bead Whores
- Bestiality
- Bisexuality
- Bondage and Discipline
- Buckle Bunnies
- Erotica Versus Pornography
- Escorts
- Feederism
- Fetishes
- Furries
- Intersexuality
- Masturbation
- Necrophilia
- Pornography
- Public Sex
- Road Whores
- Sadism and Masochism
- Sex Tourism
- Sexual Addiction
- Sexual Harassment
- Strippers, Female
- Strippers, Male
- Tearooms
- Transgender Lifestyles
- Transsexuals
- Transvestism
- Voyeurism
- Social and Political Protest
- Social Control and Deviance
- Studying Deviant Subcultures
- Technology and Deviance
- Theories of Deviance, Macro
- Anomie Theory
- Broken Windows Thesis
- Chicago School
- Code of the Street
- Conflict Theory
- Feminist Theory
- Institutional Anomie Theory
- Marxist Theory
- Peacemaking Criminology
- Queer Theory
- Routine Activity Theory
- Social Disorganization Theory
- Social Reality Theory
- Southern Subculture of Violence
- Structural Functionalism
- Theories of Deviance, Micro
- Accounts, Sociology of
- Biosocial Perspectives on Deviance
- Constructionist Theories
- Containment Theory
- Control Balance Theory
- Control Theory
- Differential Association Theory
- Dramaturgy
- Drift Theory
- Focal Concerns Theory
- General Strain Theory
- Identity
- Identity Work
- Individualism
- Integrated Theories
- Labeling Approach
- Neutralization Theory
- Phenomenological Theory
- Rational Choice Theory
- Reintegrative Shaming
- Self, The
- Self-Control Theory
- Self-Esteem and Deviance
- Social Bonds
- Social Learning Theory
- Sociolinguistic Theories
- Somatotypes: Sheldon, William
- Symbolic Interactionism
- Transitional Deviance
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