Halloween is the only day in the calendar year that children are allowed to extort candy from adults and engage in generally deviant behavior, according to sociology Prof. Allan Schnaiberg, who ...

Deviance is one of the best ways to understand what's going on in the world. From the underbelly of the world of hidden lives, such as our recent work on self-injury, The Tender Cut, to the new ...

Acta Sociologica publishes papers on high-quality innovative sociology, carried out from different theoretical and methodological starting points, in the form of full-length original articles and ...

University of Colorado officials acknowledged Monday that sociology professor Patti Adler’s lecture on prostitution led them to suspend her from teaching her popular “Deviance in U.S. Society” course ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract This paper presents and analyses various cases of deviance in science. The paper also examines those aspects of the structure and process of ...

Patrick Lopez-Aguado's research interests include race and incarceration, juvenile justice, youth and street cultures, and urban ethnography. He is the author of Stick Together and Come Back Home: ...