Practice question · Put in order
Arrange these contributions to the sociology of deviance, earliest first.
- Merton publishes Social Structure and Anomie
- Cohen publishes Folk Devils and Moral Panics
- Durkheim publishes Suicide
- Lemert distinguishes primary from secondary deviance
- Sutherland sets out differential association
- Becker publishes Outsiders
Hints
- One entry is from the nineteenth century and the rest are twentieth.
- 1897, 1938, 1939, 1951, 1963 and 1972.
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- Durkheim publishes Suicide
- Merton publishes Social Structure and Anomie
- Sutherland sets out differential association
- Lemert distinguishes primary from secondary deviance
- Becker publishes Outsiders
- Cohen publishes Folk Devils and Moral Panics
Why
The sequence tracks a shift in what the question is. The first three ask why some people break rules; the last three ask how the rule and the reaction to it are produced and what they then do to a person. Neither question replaced the other, but the second half of the century did most of its work on the second.
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