Substantial Expansion of the Concept of Addictive Behavior in Sociology

This article examines the problem of the borrowing conditions of addictive behavior concept by sociology from psychology. Sociologists who study addictive behavior as a type of deviant behavior, substantially expand this concept and consider it not so much as a personality trait, but as a collective or individual process. Deviant behavior is studied
not as an individual property of the individual, but as a process – collectively or individually, in which the individual takes possession of them. Now to measure it using the new qualitative methods of empirical research, when the study of deviant behavior is particularly important its interpretation. Вorrowing sociology concepts from psychology of addictive behavior must be accompanied by substantial expansion of its generic concept – deviant behavior. This is due to the fact that sociology along with the identifi cation of the physiological and psychological bases of deviant behavior, determines its place in the system of interactions “individual” – “group” and the social structure of society. This allows you to explore deviant behavior not as an individual property of the individual, but as a collective or individual process. This “request” satisfy the quantitative and qualitative methods of empirical research.