Deviance, Morality, and Power: Making Sense of a Fractured America

Kennedy, Devereaux

ISBN 10: 1516543211 / ISBN 13: 9781516543212

Published by Cognella Academic Publishing, 2020

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Deviance, Morality, and Power: Making Sense of a Fractured America
• Publisher: Cognella Academic Publishing
• Publication Date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1516543211
• ISBN 13: 9781516543212
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

Deviance, Morality, and Power: Making Sense of a Fractured America explores how, reconceived and retooled, sociological approaches and concepts developed to understand deviance and normality can help us address the political, social, and cultural issues that have led to a deeply divided and conflict-ridden country.

The text examines how social cohesion and stability is achieved and maintained through conflict in which groups with competing and conflicting material interests and moral visions struggle for power. It underscores how the United States embraces the seemingly contradictory ideals of individualism and popular rule, and how these conflicting ideals create an environment of competition and conflict. Readers are challenged to view deviance as a moral category connected to a moral vision of what kind of nation we believe we ought to strive to become and what kind of institutional order could embody that vision. The book proposes the reconsideration of key concepts and approaches in sociology to envision fresh applications for contemporary times and modern challenges.

Featuring a fresh perspective of deviance as a fundamentally political process, Deviance, Morality, and Power is an ideal textbook for courses in sociology, especially those that examine deviance and modern applications of sociological theory.

About the Author

Devereaux Kennedy earned his Ph.D. in sociology at Binghamton University. Dr. Kennedy is an emeritus professor of sociology at Grand Valley State University in Michigan, where he taught courses in sociological theory, as well as social deviance and social control. His research interests include social control and long-range, global social change.