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    Deviance and Social Control

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    Deviance and Social Control Final Paper Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for SOCL 101 Sociology By Social control is techniques and strategies used for preventing deviant human behavior in any society. All levels of society such as family‚ school‚ bureaucratic and government has some form of social control. Examples of family social control include obeying your parents rules‚ doing your homework and chores. School includes standards they

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    one must be sexual. A person must have a fantasy in order to be sexually involved with another person or even with themselves. When a person has a sexual fantasy‚ it seems to enhance the intercourse. There are many types of fantasies that range from what one would call normal all the way up to what some might call completely bizarre. Unfortunetly‚ a lot of people watch “porn” in order to fulfill a fantasy. They fantasize while watching the movie or clip that it is a girlfriend‚ boyfriend‚ or

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    Deviance in Social Psychology Deviance is a major issue needing further exploration in social psychology in reference to its relationship to symbolic interaction and shared meaning. Deviance is defined as behavior that violates the rules of a group- the shared generalized other. Since social organizations create shared meaning of appropriate conduct by originating norms‚ behavior that does not conform to social expectations is relative and may differ amongst groups. According to sociologist

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    Deviance is part of every culture and society‚ it is the border line between acceptable and intolerable behavior. Each micro society holds it’s own definition as to what deviant behavior actually is. The deviant is one to whom that label has successfully been applied‚ deviant behavior is behavior that people label. Through out history‚ there is no doubt in my mind that deviant citizens have been a contributing part to each generation. It is all relative‚ a label of deviance remains a label of deviance;

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    Crime and Deviance The Social Learning Theory (derived from the work of Albert Bandura) deals with the behavior of people being learned through observing others and mimicking their actions. Young children will usually develop role models (often of the same gender) they observe like parents‚ teachers‚ or a person they watch on TV. Usually by children viewing the behaviors of their role models‚ they learn appropriate behavior expected from society. Wanting to feel accepted by others will often

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    Africans‚ on the other hand‚ Mandela is a revered leader of the freedom movement. For another‚ if I may say so‚ deviance continually undergoes redefinition–that is‚ for what is deviant today may not be deviant tomorrow within a given society. For example: Is killing wrong? Usually it is. But–and this is a big but–according to Thorsten Sellin‚ author of The Conflict of Conduct Norms‚ cites an example in which a father kills the seducer of his daughter. "In Sicily‚ killing a seducer is acceptable;

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    hear of the word “deviance”‚ what we immediately think of is something that is negative‚ something you would not want to be associated with‚ that is‚ we think of universally unaccepted things like murder and rape‚ or we think of the disabled or blind man begging at the street corner. As a result we view deviance as something that should be removed from society and once society becomes free of deviance‚ it becomes healthy and close to perfect. According to Aggleton (1987: 7)‚ “deviance could be defined

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    Deviance is any infraction of norms‚ whether the violation being minor as jaywalking or as significant as raping someone. So you and I every day violate these societal norms no matter how big or small they may be. The heart of deviance is best explained by sociologist Howard S. Becker (1966)‚ "It is not the act itself‚ but the reactions to the act‚ that make something deviant." Different groups have different norms‚ maybe something deviant to a particular person may not be deviant to another (Henslin

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    Deviant behavior is behavior which does not adhere to widely-accepted social or cultural norms. For example‚ murder is a form of extreme deviant behavior which violates the cultural norm which states that it is unacceptable to kill another human being. There are a number of approaches to the study of deviance‚ along with explanations for why deviant behavior occurs‚ and how it might be addressed. Numerous colleges and universities offer coursework in this subject‚ and there are professional publications

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    Defining Crime and Deviance 1. What does it mean to suggest that ‘deviance’ and/or ‘crime’ are social constructs? A social construct is defined as a social phenomenon or category which is created and developed by society - an idea which is ‘constructed’ through cultural or social practice. Since the Labour Government were in power 3600 laws have been introduced and it is said that this is due to society constantly changing its views on various issues such as smoking inside in public places

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