PSY 450 Majors Works in Deviance and Social Control

3 hours 

The study of major writings on deviance and social control of 20th-century anthropologists, psychologists and sociologists who made seminal contributions to the contemporary understanding of the subject. The course, a seminar, will include selected writings of such theorists as Ruth Benedict, Emile Durkheim, Sigmund Freud, Bronislaw Malinowski, Robert K. Merton and Thomas Szasz.