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Lecture Notes

LEC # LECTURE NOTES
1 Introduction and Orientations (PDF)
2 Essentialist and Pathological Theories: Souls and Sin, Germs and Genes (PDF)
3 Structural Theories: Cultural Conflict, Disorganization and Anomie (PDF)
4 Functional Theories: Boundaries and Identity (PDF)
5 Post-Modern Selves: Constructed, Fractured, and Performed (PDF)
6 Moral Enterprise: Creating Categories of Deviance (PDF)
7 Becoming Deviant (PDF 1) (PDF 2)
8 Managing a Deviant Identity (PDF)
9 Confining Identities and Differences (PDF)
10 Women: Female Deviance and Criminality (PDF)