Descriptions of Deviance

Descriptions of Deviance articulates and publicises what is now a very substantial submerged corpus of ethnomethodological studies that are directly relevant to the sociology of deviance and criminology but which have hardly received any attention from mainstream sociologists and criminologists.

List of contents

Introduction 1. Ethnomethodology, Sociology and Deviance 2. Assessment Sequences 3. Extended Descriptions 4. The Categorical Organization of Descriptions of Deviance 5. Recognizing References to Deviance 6. Accountably Deviant 7. Mundane Reason and the Description of Deviance 8. From Description to Intervention: The Social Organization of Educational Psychological Reaction 9. Ethnomethodology, Deviance and the Organization of Description

About the author

Stephen Hester is Professor of Sociology at the University of Wales, Bangor.

Summary

Descriptions of Deviance articulates and publicises what is now a very substantial submerged corpus of ethnomethodological studies that are directly relevant to the sociology of deviance and criminology but which have hardly received any attention from mainstream sociologists and criminologists.

Product details

• Authors: Stephen Hester, Stephen (University of Wales Hester, Stephen K. Hester, Hester Stephen
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 05.01.2026
• EAN: 9780415955706
• ISBN: 978-0-415-95570-6
• No. of pages: 192
• Series: Routledge Advances in Criminology
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Theoretical psychology; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, PSYCHOLOGY / Social Psychology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, Social, group or collective psychology, Sociology & anthropology, Sociology and anthropology