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Patricia A. Adler and Peter Adler. Constructions of Deviance: Social Power, Context, and Interaction. 6th ed. Belmont, CAWadsworth, 2008. 600 pp. $ 1 1 1.95. ISBN 0-495-00372-7.
John Curra. The Relativity of Deviance. 2nd ed.Thousand Oaks, CA: Pine Forge Press, 20 1 0. 3 1 2 pp. $34.95. ISBN 978- 1 -4 1 29-6466- 1 .
Erich Goode. Deviant Behavior. 9th ed. Boston: Prentice Hall, 20 1 1 . 355 pp. $67.20. ISBN 978-0-20574807-5.
Erich Goode and D.Angus Vail. Extreme Deviance. Thousand Oaks, CA: Pine Forge Press, 2010. 233 pp. $47.95. ISBN 978- 1 -4 1 29-3722- 1 .
Robert Heine. Deviance across Cultures. New York: Oxford University, 2008. 288 pp. $47.95. ISBN 978-0- 1 95- 1 7709- 1.
Charles H. McCaghy, Timothy A. Capron.J. D.Jamieson, and Sandra Harley Carey. Deviant Behavior: Crime, Conflict, and Interest Groups. 8th ed. Boston: Pearson, 2008. 436 pp. $75.60. ISBN 978-0-20557083-6.
Henry N. Pontell and Stephen M. Rosoff. Social Deviance: Readings in Theory and Research. Upper Saddle River, NJ: McGraw Hill, 20 1 1 . 498 pp. $47.77. ISBN 978-0-07-34044 1 -7.
David R. Simon. Bite Deviance. 9th ed. Boston: Allyn and Bacon, 2008. 359 pp. $69.80. ISBN 978-0205-57195-6.
AlexThio. Deviant Behavior. 1 0th ed. Boston: Allyn and Bacon, 20 1 0. 460 pp. $ 1 03.60. ISBN 978-0205-69609-3.
AlexThio, Thomas C. Calhoun, and Addrain Conyers. Readings in Deviant Behavior. 6th ed. Boston: Allyn and Bacon, 368 pp. $69.40. ISBN 978-0-205-69557-7.
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College courses on the sociology of deviant behavior are among the most enjoyable offerings for faculty because students are immediately captivated by the topic. Most students are interested to learn about complex human behaviors and are easily drawn into classroom discussions about sexualities, drinking, drugs, crime, violence, and other mainstays of the course content. This enthusiasm provides an opportunity for instructors to engage in higher level pedagogy that strikes at the core of sociology as a discipline: helping students understand the layered and dynamic process through which many behaviors and the cultural interpretations of those behaviors are socially constructed and reconstructed.
Given the popularity of the topic and the broad range of course offerings at every type of university and community college, a large number of textbooks are available for undergraduate instructors...