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Positivist Definitions of Deviance
Scholars have not yet reached consensus on a common definition of deviance. This is partly due to changing perception and understanding of deviance among various social groups and in different times. Hence, deviance can be conceptualized in many forms. Contributions to ...
- 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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