Example Deviance Observation Paper 1 
Observing Deviance at the Park
I will start off my research by saying you must know what deviance means and how to identify what represents deviant behavior. Deviance can be labeled such as, ones attitudes, behaviors, and conditions (Adler& Adler, 2012) Deviance also the desecration of a social norm (Goode, 2001). You ask yourself what is a social norm and how can I understand it. Social norms are the rules of behavior that are considered acceptable in a group or society. People who do not follow these norms may be shunned or suffer some kind of consequence (Princeton, 2012). There are a couple of Norm Violations that are listed such as a person singing loudly on a public bus, while they riding on the subway, and last one would be riding the train. Deviance is also important to understand what increases rates of deviance that society produces (Goddard, 1979). As I noted above that there are negative norm violations and boundaries in society. The following paper will be observations of different parks by different ages and genders.
While I am observing at the park I am going to look at different people from different backgrounds such as who misbehaves the most, what age seemed to do the most bullying, and how many ignored their children when they started the fights with other children at the parks. The most deviant act I seen the most when I was observing, were children shoving other children to get on the sliding board. On several events, the children range from ages four to six were always running around pushing the little girls to get out of there way when they wanted to either slide down the sliding board or either push the merry go round. What I seen was a little disturbing was some parents were on their cell phones and wasn’t pay no mind to their children. The parents body language was clear that they didn’t want to be there for example, when one child ran to his mom she put a finger up wanting him to wait until she had got off the
I will start off my research by saying you must know what deviance means and how to identify what represents deviant behavior. Deviance can be labeled such as, ones attitudes, behaviors, and conditions (Adler& Adler, 2012) Deviance also the desecration of a social norm (Goode, 2001). You ask yourself what is a social norm and how can I understand it. Social norms are the rules of behavior that are considered acceptable in a group or society. People who do not follow these norms may be shunned or suffer some kind of consequence (Princeton, 2012). There are a couple of Norm Violations that are listed such as a person singing loudly on a public bus, while they riding on the subway, and last one would be riding the train. Deviance is also important to understand what increases rates of deviance that society produces (Goddard, 1979). As I noted above that there are negative norm violations and boundaries in society. The following paper will be observations of different parks by different ages and genders.
While I am observing at the park I am going to look at different people from different backgrounds such as who misbehaves the most, what age seemed to do the most bullying, and how many ignored their children when they started the fights with other children at the parks. The most deviant act I seen the most when I was observing, were children shoving other children to get on the sliding board. On several events, the children range from ages four to six were always running around pushing the little girls to get out of there way when they wanted to either slide down the sliding board or either push the merry go round. What I seen was a little disturbing was some parents were on their cell phones and wasn’t pay no mind to their children. The parents body language was clear that they didn’t want to be there for example, when one child ran to his mom she put a finger up wanting him to wait until she had got off the
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