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DEFINING DEVIANCY UP.
- Source :
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New Republic . 11/22/93, Vol. 209 Issue 21, p20-25. 5p. - Publication Year :
- 1993
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Abstract
- Focuses on deviancy in the United States social landscape. Increase in crime, welfare dependency and poverty and the attempt of social workers, intellectuals and the media to redefine the social phenomena; Moral deconstruction of middle-class normality; Psychological aspects of deviancy; Increase in mental illness; Complementary social phenomenon that goes with defining deviancy; Moral deconstruction of middle-class normality.
- Subjects :
- *DEVIANT behavior
*HUMAN behavior
*PUBLIC welfare
*MENTAL health
*CRIME
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 00286583
- Volume :
- 209
- Issue :
- 21
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- New Republic
- Publication Type :
- Periodical
- Accession number :
- 12082444