TY - JOUR
T1 - UNTIMELY ACTS
T2 - Extending the Interactionist Conception of Deviance
AU - Reese, William A.
AU - Katovich, Michael A.
PY - 1989/6
Y1 - 1989/6
N2 - Interactionists and labelling theorists have made actors central to a jointly constructed process of deviance. This article extends their arguments to the deviant act itself and suggests how uses and conceptions of time and temporality distinguish deviant acts from routine or other unconventional acts. It treats time systematically in relation to designations of deviance by, first, correlating timing with temporal structures; second, comparing and contrasting deviant acts with untoward and anomalous acts; third, discussing nine temporal dimensions involved in the construction of deviant acts by illustrating how diagnosticians identify problematic drinking; fourth, elaborating the use of these dimensions to deviance in general and to issues of legal and “universal wrongs” which imply a negotiated moral order in modern society.
AB - Interactionists and labelling theorists have made actors central to a jointly constructed process of deviance. This article extends their arguments to the deviant act itself and suggests how uses and conceptions of time and temporality distinguish deviant acts from routine or other unconventional acts. It treats time systematically in relation to designations of deviance by, first, correlating timing with temporal structures; second, comparing and contrasting deviant acts with untoward and anomalous acts; third, discussing nine temporal dimensions involved in the construction of deviant acts by illustrating how diagnosticians identify problematic drinking; fourth, elaborating the use of these dimensions to deviance in general and to issues of legal and “universal wrongs” which imply a negotiated moral order in modern society.
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U2 - 10.1111/j.1533-8525.1989.tb01517.x
DO - 10.1111/j.1533-8525.1989.tb01517.x
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84984062884
SN - 0038-0253
VL - 30
SP - 159
EP - 184
JO - Sociological Quarterly
JF - Sociological Quarterly
IS - 2
ER -