Becoming deviant

by David Matza and Thomas G Blomberg

Book Overview

Becoming Deviant describes a process by which people move from an affinity for certain prohibited behaviors to full-blown deviance. This process includes affiliation with circles and settings that include or sponsor offenses, followed by understanding and identification of the offenses as prohibited behavior by the transgressor. The process can be summarized as affinity, affiliation, and signification. The sequential process Matza describes allows...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0130734373
• ISBN13: 9780130734372
• Release Date: January 1969
• Publisher: Prentice-Hall
• Length: 203 Pages
• Weight: 1.95 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Excellent Book about Deviance

This book is divided in two sections. The first outlines the contributions of the Chicago School of the 20's and 30's, the functionalists of the 40's and 50's and the Labellists or Neochicogoans of the 1960's to an emerging naturalist perspective (as opposed to correbtionalist perspective) to deviance. it's unfortunate that it is out of print. It's great for any sociology student who's interested in the study of deviance through a sociological perspective.