Abstract
Howard Saul Becker is known as a very famous sociologist who has studied deviance. Before publishing Outsiders, he has published a lot of works whose subject is mainly occupation, especially profession. In this paper, my theme is to find why Becker could produce the study of deviance in Outsiders, watching especially the relation between Outsiders and the study of early works by Becker.
Becker was studying occupation, especially profession. At the same time he was a professional dance musician which has the trait of deviants in addition to the trait of professionals. So he could find the resemblance between profession (professionals) and deviance (deviants), and could find the importance of the deviant behavior of professionals. Finally it seems that he could produce Outsiders by transforming his and others' works of the study of occupation and his experience on his job into the study of deviance.
