Deviance without deviants
The temporal quality of patterned behavior1
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2151983 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Edward Sagarin (City College, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1979 |
| Volume | 1 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 1-13 |
| Publication date | 1979-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Deviant Behavior (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0163-9625 • E-ISSN: 1521-0456 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/01639625.1979.9967510 |
| OpenAlex | W2020554831 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
| References cited | 6 |
Social scientists oriented toward labeling have argued that there are unfortunate consequences, in the form of self‐fulfilling prophesies or secondary deviance, of placing people into a deviant category and giving them the label associated with that grouping. This paper proposes that such a process of categorization is inaccurate because it transforms activity into identity. Identity suggests permanence, whereas activity suggests voluntarism, responsibility, and the labile nature of human conduct. Deviance without deviants would stress the impermanence of patterns of behavior, even though they be patterns, and the potential of all persons to go in all directions
Categorization · Criminology · Developmental psychology · Deviance (statistics · Epistemology · Social group · Social identity theory · Voluntarism (philosophy · Computer Science · Contemporary Sociological Theory and Practice · Crime Patterns and Interventions · Crime, Deviance, and Social Control · Psychology · Social Psychology · Artificial Intelligence
| Unique citing works | 6 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,13 |
| Citation span | 1981 - 2017 (37) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 6 |