UNC Pembroke Course Schedule

Department of Sociology, Social Work
& Criminal Justice

Schedule - SOC 3670 Social Deviance (also CRJ 3670)

Instructor: Dr. Fran Haga SOC 3670 Home Page

Date Topic Reading Assignments Notes

Wk 1 -- Jan 11 Explaining Deviance Matt Taibbi (October 15, 2009) “Wall Street’s naked swindle: A scheme to flood the market with counterfeit stocks helped kill Bear Stearns and Lehman Brothers – and the feds have yet to bust the culprits” Rolling Stone Magazine, pp. 50-59.

Read: Part 9, Epilogue: A freedom-deviance trade off? Bayley, “Lessons in Order” (Heiner, pp. 257-269)

Write: Assignment 1. Assignment 1. (With the exception of the first day of class--

Wk 2 -- Jan 25 Classical Analysis Read: Emile Durkheim [b.1858 d.1917] “The Normal and the Pathological.” Assignment 2. the readings are due to be read for the week they show on the schedule.)

Wk 3 -- Feb 1 The Social Construction of Deviance Read: Kai Erikson [b. 1931] “On the Sociology of Deviance” Assignment 3. (Written assignments are begun in class and --

Wk 4 -- Feb 8 Read:Robert K. Merton [b. 1910 d. 2003] Social Structure and Anomie Assignment 4. are due the following week)

Wk 5 -- Feb 15 Juvenile Delinquency Read: Gresham Sykes [b. 1922] and David Matza [b. 1930] “Techniques of Neutralization" (1957) Assignment 5.

Wk 6 -- Feb 22 TEST!!! Midterm Exam Assignment 6.

Wk 7 -- Mar 1 Juvenile Delinquency (con't) Read:Travis Hirschi [1969] “A Control Theory of Delinquency” Assignment 7.

Wk 8 -- Mar 15 Social Construction of Deviance Read: Jack P. Gibbs [1989] “Conceptions of deviant behavior: The old and the new” Assignment 8.

Wk 9 -- Mar 22 Social Construction of Deviance (con't) Read:Jeffery Victor [1993] “The Search for Scapegoat Deviants” Assignment 9.

Wk 10 -- Mar 29 Moral Panics Read: Erich Goode and Nachman Ben-Yehuda [1994] “Moral Panics in History” Assignment 10.

Wk 11-- Apr 5 Corporate Deviance Read: Basia Spalek [2001]“Regulation, White-Collar Crime and the Bank of Credit and Commerce International”

Wk 12 -- Apr 12 The Con of the Century View Video Directions for the Cartoon Boxes, begin this evening.

Wk 13 -- Apr 19 Mental Illness Read: David Rosenhan [1993] “On Being Sane in Insane Places” Cartoon Box work continues.

Wk 14 -- Apr 26 Deviance Defined in Humor Cartoon Illustration Presentation Night Cartoon Boxes Finished.

Wk 15 -- May 1 Final Exam Comprehensive.

Date	Topic	Reading	Assignments	Notes
Wk 1 -- Jan 11	Explaining Deviance	Matt Taibbi (October 15, 2009) “Wall Street’s naked swindle: A scheme to flood the market with counterfeit stocks helped kill Bear Stearns and Lehman Brothers – and the feds have yet to bust the culprits” Rolling Stone Magazine, pp. 50-59. Read: Part 9, Epilogue: A freedom-deviance trade off? Bayley, “Lessons in Order” (Heiner, pp. 257-269) Write: Assignment 1.	Assignment 1.	(With the exception of the first day of class--
Wk 2 -- Jan 25	Classical Analysis	Read: Emile Durkheim [b.1858 d.1917] “The Normal and the Pathological.”	Assignment 2.	the readings are due to be read for the week they show on the schedule.)
Wk 3 -- Feb 1	The Social Construction of Deviance	Read: Kai Erikson [b. 1931] “On the Sociology of Deviance”	Assignment 3.	(Written assignments are begun in class and --
Wk 4 -- Feb 8		Read:Robert K. Merton [b. 1910 d. 2003] Social Structure and Anomie	Assignment 4.	are due the following week)
Wk 5 -- Feb 15	Juvenile Delinquency	Read: Gresham Sykes [b. 1922] and David Matza [b. 1930] “Techniques of Neutralization" (1957)	Assignment 5.
Wk 6 -- Feb 22	TEST!!!	Midterm Exam	Assignment 6.
Wk 7 -- Mar 1	Juvenile Delinquency (con't)	Read:Travis Hirschi [1969] “A Control Theory of Delinquency”	Assignment 7.
Wk 8 -- Mar 15	Social Construction of Deviance	Read: Jack P. Gibbs [1989] “Conceptions of deviant behavior: The old and the new”	Assignment 8.
Wk 9 -- Mar 22	Social Construction of Deviance (con't)	Read:Jeffery Victor [1993] “The Search for Scapegoat Deviants”	Assignment 9.
Wk 10 -- Mar 29	Moral Panics	Read: Erich Goode and Nachman Ben-Yehuda [1994] “Moral Panics in History”	Assignment 10.
Wk 11-- Apr 5	Corporate Deviance	Read: Basia Spalek [2001]“Regulation, White-Collar Crime and the Bank of Credit and Commerce International”
Wk 12 -- Apr 12	The Con of the Century	View Video	Directions for the Cartoon Boxes, begin this evening.
Wk 13 -- Apr 19	Mental Illness	Read: David Rosenhan [1993] “On Being Sane in Insane Places”	Cartoon Box work continues.
Wk 14 -- Apr 26	Deviance Defined in Humor	Cartoon Illustration Presentation Night	Cartoon Boxes Finished.
Wk 15 -- May 1	Final Exam Comprehensive.