Sociological Theory Of Deviance
Deviance is a universal & complex theory in the world of sociology. We spend a lot of time in class talking about how society fits together & how it functions but we can’t just cover all of the bases without getting to know the people that don’t fit in society and how they get to be the way, they are. A person who believes in God would view a person who believes in satanism as deviant because they are praising a phenomenon that does evil instead of good. In sociology deviance means, an act of violation of rules, behavior, and social norms. For example wearing colored contact lenses wouldn’t necessarily be deviant but having your eyes dyed a certain color is deviant and would certainly earn you strange looks from strangers and strange
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Such as how the rich view the poor, or we could go back to slavery in which the African Americans had already been labeled as deviant by nature. The last sociological principle to have a better understanding to as what deviant is to understand the social norms and values that involve social power. We can see this in many forms such a protesting, to campaign rallies. Both have a political speech and they both disturb traffic, but they both get two similar drawn reactions from police. These are three sociological principles that we can agree on that can describe deviance on a more sociological perspective. Functionalism is the understanding of social and cultural pheromone that helps us function within society. Emile Durkheim is the founder of functionalism, this theory doesn’t focus on the individuals problems but as society as a whole, such as cultures, or society groups. Durkheim argued that society is characterized by existence of order, control, and the constrain of individuals. Functionalism is the logical and systematic analysis; that looks at all individuals as being the same in society and offers no explanation to what differentiates. Durkeim believes in a functioning society, that should pass all rule, norms, and values. An example of this could be the way that a human person functions, if the person’s heart starts to give out than every organ in the body will start to shutdown as well. This theory has it’s own weakness, it assumes that every one in society has the same choices and same
Such as how the rich view the poor, or we could go back to slavery in which the African Americans had already been labeled as deviant by nature. The last sociological principle to have a better understanding to as what deviant is to understand the social norms and values that involve social power. We can see this in many forms such a protesting, to campaign rallies. Both have a political speech and they both disturb traffic, but they both get two similar drawn reactions from police. These are three sociological principles that we can agree on that can describe deviance on a more sociological perspective. Functionalism is the understanding of social and cultural pheromone that helps us function within society. Emile Durkheim is the founder of functionalism, this theory doesn’t focus on the individuals problems but as society as a whole, such as cultures, or society groups. Durkheim argued that society is characterized by existence of order, control, and the constrain of individuals. Functionalism is the logical and systematic analysis; that looks at all individuals as being the same in society and offers no explanation to what differentiates. Durkeim believes in a functioning society, that should pass all rule, norms, and values. An example of this could be the way that a human person functions, if the person’s heart starts to give out than every organ in the body will start to shutdown as well. This theory has it’s own weakness, it assumes that every one in society has the same choices and same