Topic	Thio/Calhoun assignments	Additional articles from Library/internet or handouts	Pfuhl and Henry assignments (optional)	Exams, reviews, due dates
1/18	Intro to class and to social deviance
1/20	Defining deviance	Introduction #1 – images of deviance #2 – defining deviancy down		Chap 1 – studying deviance
1/23	Continue		“A new typology of deviance: integrating normative and reactivist definitions of deviance” Herkert and Heckert. Full-text available via Sociological Abstracts
1/25	Continue
1/27	Researching and counting deviance	#3 – strategies for researching street deviance #4 – pleasures and perils in deviance research		Chap 2 – counting deviance
1/30	Continue
2/1	Positivistic theories	#5 – anomie-strain #6 – differential association #7 -- control #8 – shaming
2/3	No Class
2/6	Constructionist theories	Part three – articles #9-13
2/8	Continue
2/10	Breaking rules		1. Handout 2. Choose ONE (full-text from soc abstracts): “The nature and frequency of medicare/medicaid fraud and neutralization techniques. . . “ Evans and Porche. Deviant Behavior 2005. “The good mother: neutralization techniques used by pageant mothers.” Heltsley and Calhoun, Deviant Behavior, 2003	Chap 3 – Breaking rules
2/13	Continue	#40 – on-line accounts of unrepentant pedophiles #43– the neutralization of professional deviance among veterinarians #46 – shoplifters: “the devil made me do it.”
2/15	Catch up and review
2/17					Exam 1
2/20	Moral conversions, scares and moral panics		Receive handout	Chap 4 -- Banning
2/22	Continue		“Moral panic and the nasty girl,” Barron and Lacombe, The Canadian Review of Soc and Anthro, 2004 -- full-text via Soc Abstracts “Moral panic over youth violence: wilding and the manufacture of menace in the media,” Welch, Price and Yankey. Youth and Society, 2002 – full text via Soc Abstracts
2/24	Continue		“The crack baby panic,” Logan – on course reserve
2/27	Continue		“Terrorism,” Eller and Brown – on course reserve
3/1	Continue	#14 – suicide bombing
3/3	Continue	#50 – how social science can reduce terrorism #53 – everyday surveillance in postmodern society			Book/articles/elite deviance choices due
3/6-10	Spring Break
3/13	Physical violence	#15 – serial murder #16 – what triggers school shootings
3/15	Death penalty	#17 – extreme support for the death penalty	ATTEND -- 12:40p.m., JUB 100, “The Death Penalty: Distinctive Female Experiences,” panel discussion
3/17	Medicalization of deviance		Handout
3/20	Continue	#23 – self-injurers #24 – being sane in insane places #25 – the emergence of hyperactive adults as abnormal
3/22	Continue		Choose one: “The medicalization of deviance as an interactive achievement: the construction of compulsive gambling,” Josh Rossol – on course reserves OR “An argument that goes back to the womb” the demedicalization of fetal alcohol syndrome,” Janet Golden – on INFOtrack
3/24	Continue				Review
3/27					Exam 2
3/29	Stigma			Chap 5 – creating deviants Chap 6 – consequences of stigma
3/31	Continue	Part 7, articles #26-29
4/3	Stigma management	#32 – exotic dancers #33 – everyone knows who the sluts are. . .		Chap 7 – responses to stigma Chap 8 – transformation of stigma
4/5	Continue		“Collective stigma management and shame: avowal, management, and contestation,” Martin – on course reserves
4/7	Continue
4/10	Elite deviance	Simon assignments Chap 1 -- nature of elite deviance
4/12	Continue	Chap 2 – elite deviance and the higher immorality
4/14	Continue	Choose one chap: Chap 3,4,5,6, or 7 Thio/Calhoun assignments #44 – societal causes of political corruption #45 – Enron: organizational rituals as deviance			class discussions and presentations
4/17	Continue				class discussions and presentations
4/19	Continue	Simon Chap 8 – understanding elite deviance
4/21	Continue	Chap 9 – the scandalization of America			5 pt. bonus for early book/article/elite dev project
4/24	Deviance in cyberspace	#38 – child porn on the net #39 – rapes on the internet #51 – struggling with cybercon			Book/Articles/Elite deviance projects due
4/26	Continue				Review
5/3					9:30-11:30 Final Exam

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