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STUDIES IN THE SOCIOLOGY OF DEVIANCE

Howard S. Beckeif'

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Sometimes I ain't so sho who's got ere a right to say when a man is crazy and when he ain't. Someti,"es I think it ain't none of us pure crazy a1ld ain't none of lIS pure sane until tbe balance of us talks him that-a-way. It's like it ain't so mucb wbat a fellow does, but it's the way tbe majority of folks is looking at bim wben he does it.

William Faulkner, AS I LAY DYING

Acknowledgments

FOUR chapters of this book originally appeared in slightly different form elsewhere. Chapter 3 ap-

peared in the American Journa{of Sociology, UX (November, 1953); Chapter 5 appeared in the same journal, LVII

(September, 1951). Both are reprinted here with the permission of the Journal and the University of Chicago Press. Chapter 4 appeared in Human Organization, 12 (Spring, 1953), and is reprinted here with the permission of the Society for Applied Anthropology. Chapter 6 appeared in Social Problems, 3 (July, 1955), and is reprinted with the permission of the Society for the Study of Social Problems.

The material in Chapters 3 and 4 was originally prepared

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