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Overview
This book focuses primarily on social control—society's tendency to identify and control the behavior of certain types of citizens— framed within a social constructionist perspective based on several assumptions. The text focuses on five social categories —law, health, sexuality, race, and education—in which it discusses how definitions of unconventionality are formed and how they influence the control of certain categories of people.
Synopsis
This book focuses primarily on social control—society's tendency to identify and control the behavior of certain types of citizens— framed within a social constructionist perspective based on several assumptions. The text focuses on five social categories —law, health, sexuality, race, and education—in which it discusses how definitions of unconventionality are formed and how they influence the control of certain categories of people.