Understanding Deviance In A World Of Standards

Author : Andrea Fried
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0198833881
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Understanding Deviance in a World of Standards written by Andrea Fried and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2020-01-23 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Standards have become widespread regulatory tools that are set to promote global trade, innovation, efficiency, and quality. They contribute significantly to the creation of safe, reliable, and high quality services and technologies to ensure human health, environmental protection, or information security. Yet intentional deviations from standards by organizations are often reported in many sectors, which can either contribute to or challenge the measures of safety and quality they are designed to safeguard. Why then, despite all potential consequences, do organizations choose to deviate from standards in one way or another? This book uses structuration theory - covering aspects of both structure and agency - to explore the organizational conditions and contradictions under which different types of deviance occur. It provides empirical explanations for deviance in organizations that go beyond an understanding of individual misbehaviour where mainly a single person is held responsible. Case studies of software-developing organizations illustrate insightful generalizations on standards as a mechanism of sensemaking, resource allocation, and sanctioning, and provide ground to re-think corporate responsibility when deviating from standards in the 'audit society'.

Author : Andrea Fried
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192570633
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Understanding Deviance in a World of Standards written by Andrea Fried and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2020-02-05 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Standards have become widespread regulatory tools that are set to promote global trade, innovation, efficiency, and quality. They contribute significantly to the creation of safe, reliable, and high quality services and technologies to ensure human health, environmental protection, or information security. Yet intentional deviations from standards by organizations are often reported in many sectors, which can either contribute to or challenge the measures of safety and quality they are designed to safeguard. Why then, despite all potential consequences, do organizations choose to deviate from standards in one way or another? This book uses structuration theory - covering aspects of both structure and agency - to explore the organizational conditions and contradictions under which different types of deviance occur. It provides empirical explanations for deviance in organizations that go beyond an understanding of individual misbehaviour where mainly a single person is held responsible. Case studies of software-developing organizations illustrate insightful generalizations on standards as a mechanism of sensemaking, resource allocation, and sanctioning, and provide ground to re-think corporate responsibility when deviating from standards in the 'audit society'.

Author : Tammy L. Anderson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134756305
Total Pages : 595 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Understanding Deviance written by Tammy L. Anderson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-01-23 with total page 595 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this collection of 48 reprinted and completely original articles, Tammy Anderson gives her fellow instructors of undergraduate deviance a refreshing way to energize and revitalize their courses. [36 are reprints; 12 are original to this text/anthology] First, in 12 separate sections, she presents a wide range of deviant behaviors, traits, and conditions including: underage drinking and drunk driving, doping in elite sports, gang behavior, community crime, juvenile delinquency, hate crime, prison violence and transgendered prisoners, mental illness, drug-using women and domestic violence, obesity, tattooing, sexual fetishes, prostitution, drug epidemics, viral pandemics, crime control strategies and racial inequality, gay neighborhoods, HIV and bugchasers, and (lastly) youth, multicultural identity and music scenes. Second, her pairing of "classic" and "contemporary" viewpoints about deviance and social control not only "connects" important literatures of the past to today’s (student) readers, her "connections framework" also helps all of us see social life and social processes more clearly when alternative meanings are accorded to similar forms of deviant behavior. We also learn how to appreciate and interact with those who see things differently from ourselves. This may better equip us to reach common goals in an increasingly diverse and ever-changing world. Third, a major teaching goal of Anderson’s anthology is to sharpen students’ critical thinking skills by forcing them to look at how a deviant behavior, trait or condition, can be viewed from opposing or alternative perspectives. By learning to see deviance from multiple perspectives, students will better understand their own and other’s behavior and experiences and be able to anticipate future trends. Balancing multiple perspectives may also assist students in their practical work in social service, criminal justice and other agencies and institutions that deal with populations considered "deviant" in one way or another.

Author : Earl Rubington
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317348796
Total Pages : 854 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Deviance written by Earl Rubington and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-10-30 with total page 854 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This highly successful reader presents the interactionist approach to the study of deviance, examining deviance as a phenomenon that is constituted through social interpretations and the reactions of persons caught up in this social process. This book focuses on issues such as how individuals interpret and label people, how people relate to one another based on these interpretations, and the consequences of these social processes. This perspective helps students understand both social process in general and the sociology of deviance in particular.

Author : Jörg Rüpke
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107090520
Total Pages : 153 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Religious Deviance in the Roman World written by Jörg Rüpke and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016-05-16 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers a new reading of the ancient sources in order to find indications for religious deviance practices in the Roman world.

Author : Craig B. Little
Publisher : Wadsworth
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Understanding Deviance and Control written by Craig B. Little and published by Wadsworth. This book was released on 1983 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Paul C. Higgins
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Humanities, Social Sciences & World Languages
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Understanding Deviance written by Paul C. Higgins and published by McGraw-Hill Humanities, Social Sciences & World Languages. This book was released on 1982 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : David M. Downes
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0199278288
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Understanding Deviance written by David M. Downes and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2007 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the new edition of the textbook, 'Understanding Deviance', that guides the new student through the major sociological theories of crime, deviance and control. It offers an in-depth discussion of all the prominent theories of deviance.

Author : James R. McIntosh
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Perspectives on Marginality: Understanding Deviance written by James R. McIntosh and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Mary McIntosh
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351059017
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Deviance and Social Control written by Mary McIntosh and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-05-11 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1974, Deviance and Social Control represents a collection of original papers first heard at the annual meeting of the British Sociological Association in 1971. They reveal how the American approach to deviance has been taken up by British sociologists, and revised and modified, and they explore possibilities of extending and strengthening the subject, for instance through comparative analysis or by examining issues which bear on deviant behaviour.