The Politics of Deviance
by Anne Hendershott
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 1893554473
- ISBN 13
- 9781893554474
- Seller
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About This Item
Encounter Books, 2002. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Discusses how social norms are created and broken in the context of political science. Very good hardcover with gray cloth on boards with metallic blue lettering to the spine. Dust jacket has scuffing to the front and back. Author's notes. Index. 194 pp. Publisher's blurb, "Arguing against the grain of her own discipline, Anne Hendershott asserts the value and strength of the most important of all determinants of behavior--social norms and the commitment to accept them. The Politics of Deviance maintains that definitions of deviance that rely upon reason, and not emotion or political advocacy, are indispensable to the process of generating and sustaining cultural values and reaffirming the moral ties that bind us together.
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- Bookseller
- The Anthropologists Closet (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 2096
- Title
- The Politics of Deviance
- Author
- Anne Hendershott
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 1893554473
- ISBN 13
- 9781893554474
- Publisher
- Encounter Books
- Place of Publication
- San Francisco, California, U.s.a.
- Date Published
- 2002
- Keywords
- Catholic Church, date rape, drug use, drug policy, mental illness, homelessness, crime, policy,
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