Soc

228a Professor Elijah Anderson

Norms and Deviance Spring 2015
Yale University
Instructor:
Elijah Anderson, elijah.anderson@yale.edu
Teaching Assistant:
Isabel Jijon, isabel.jijon@yale.edu
A sociological analysis of the origins, development, and reactions surrounding
deviance in contemporary society. A major issue of sociology concerns the nature of
social organization over various epochs. This course will examine the distinction
between norms and deviance, including issues of rule making and rule breaking
behavior. The role of group labeling, stigma, power, and competing notions of
propriety will be carefully considered, as well as the ideologies of cosmopolitanism
and diversity.
Requirements:
Class participation
Course Paper
Mid-term and Final Exam
Books
Howard S. Becker, Outsiders: Studies in the Sociology of Deviance
Erving Goffman, Stigma: Notes on the Managements of Spoiled Identity
Erving Goffman, The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life
C.S. Hall, A Primer in Freudian Psychology
D.H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterleys Lover
Erving Goffman, Asylums
Elijah Anderson, The Cosmopolitan Canopy
Solomon Northrup, 12 Years a Slave
David Matza, Becoming Deviant
Giorgio Bassani, The Garden of the Finzi-Continis
Alice Goffman, On the Run
Articles
Kai Erickson, On the Sociology of Deviance
Emile Durkheim, The Normal and the Pathological
Stanton Wheeler, Deviant Behavior

Robert Red^ield, The Social Organization of Tradition

Herbert Blumer, Race Prejudice as a Sense of Group Position
Robert K. Merton, Social Structure and Anomie
Elijah Anderson, The Iconic Ghetto
Elijah Anderson, The Code of the Streets
Elijah Anderson, The White Space

January 12: Introduction: Rules and Their Discontents*

January 16, Friday: David Matza, Becoming Deviant
January 19: NO CLASS Martin L. King Day
January 26: E. Anderson, The Cosmopolitan Canopy
February 2: H.S. Becker, Outsiders: Studies in the Sociology of Deviance
February 9: E. Goffman, Stigma: on the Management of Spoiled Identity
February 16: E. Goffman, The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life
February 23: E. Goffman, Asylums
C. S. Hall, A Primer of Freudian Psychology

March 2: Additional Conceptual Frames
S. Wheeler, Deviant Behavior
E. Durkheim, The Normal and the Pathological
K. Erickson, On the Sociology of Deviance
R. Merton, Social Structure and Anomie
R. Red^ield, The Social Organization of Tradition
H. Blumer, Race Prejudice as a Sense of Group Position
E. Anderson, The Code of the Street
E. Anderson, The Iconic Ghetto
E. Anderson, The White Space
March 6-22: SPRING BREAK
Case Considerations
March 23: S. Northrup, 12 Years a Slave
March 30: D.H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterleys Lover


April 6: Georgio Bassani, The Garden of the Finzi-Continis

April 13: Alice Goffman, On the Run
April 20: Wrap up and Summary (Last Class)
*A bibliography will forthcoming.