Sept. 9  Introduction and overview, defining deviance, characteristics of deviance.
Deutschmann Ch. 1 "Issues in the Study of Deviance"
Thio and Calhoun "Introduction" and Ch. 1 "Images of Deviance" (Pfohl)

Sept. 16  How do we study deviance?
Deutschmann Ch. 2 "Understanding and Testing Theories of Deviance"
Thio and Calhoun Ch. 3 "Strategies for Researching..." and Ch. 4 "Pleasures and Perils..."

Sept. 23  Prescientific definitions and theories of deviance
Deutschmann Ch. 3 "Prescientific Approaches to Deviance"

Sept. 30  Classical roots of our modern approaches to the study of deviance
Deutschmann Ch. 4 "Classical Theories of Deviance..."

Oct. 7  Early biological and physiological theories and their modern counterparts
Deutschmann Ch. 5 "Biological and Physiological Explanations..."
Thio and Calhoun Ch. 14 "Men and Violence..." (Archer and McDaniel)

Oct. 14  Psychoanalytical, cognitive and social learning theories of deviance
Deutschmann Ch. 6. "Psychoanalytic and Psychological Explanations..."

Oct. 21  Deviance and its relationship to disorganization in society
Deutschmann Ch. 7 "The Social Disorganization Perspective"
Thio and Calhoun Ch. 2 "Defining Deviancy Down" (Moynihan)

Oct. 28  Deviance in response to anomie: structural-functionalist and strain theories
Deutschmann Ch. 8 "Functionalist and Strain Perspectives"
Thio and Calhoun Ch. 5 "Strain Theory" (Merton)

Nov. 4  The influence of culture and cultural learning on behaviour
Deutschmann Ch. 9 "Subcultural and Social Learning Theories..."
Thio and Calhoun Ch. 6 "Differential Association Theory" (Sutherland and Cressey)
Thio and Calhoun Ch. 45 "Situational Ethics and College Student Cheating" (LaBeff et al)

Nov. 11  Deviance as a product of interaction and as a response to societal reactions
Deutschmann Ch. 10 "Interaction Theories"
Thio and Calhoun Ch. 9 "Labeling Theory" (Becker)
Thio and Calhoun  Ch. 10 "Phenomenological Theory" (Katz)

Nov. 18  The social control of deviant behaviour
Deutschmann Ch. 11 "Social Control Theories"
Thio and Calhoun Ch. 7 "Control Theory" (Hirschi)
Thio and Calhoun Ch. 8 "Shaming Theory" (Braithwaite)

Nov. 25  How the powerful define who and what is deviant in society
Deutschmann Ch. 12 "Conflict Theories"
Thio and Calhoun Ch. 11 "Conflict Theory" (Quinney)

Dec. 2  Developing a more integrated view of deviance
Deutschmann Ch. 13 "The Trickster Theme..."
Thio and Calhoun Ch. 12 "Feminist Theory" (Daly)
Thio and Calhoun Ch. 13 "A Postmodernist Theory" (Friedrichs and Friedrichs)