Jennifer Nieto-Robinson Professor McBroom Sociology of Deviance Midterm 326 1) What do sociologists mean when they describe deviance as being relative? Provide an example of a deviant behavior and identify how it is relative. Deviance is behavior that a considerable number of people in a society view as reprehensible and beyond the limits of tolerance. In most cases it is both negatively valued and provokes hostile reactions. Deviance does not exist independently of norms. Without norms
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Sociology 101 Extra Credit Being a deviant person in our American culture means being marked as an outsider. Labeling deviant behavior is a society’s attempt to regulate people’s thoughts‚ feelings‚ and behaviors so each person falls within the “normative” range of things. According to our American values‚ your friend is deviant in some ways but some of the things he does wouldn’t be considered deviant. One of our culture’s values is individual achievement and personal
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sociologists define deviance? Deviance is behavior or characteristics that violate important social norms. The difference between how the dictionary defines deviance and how sociologist define deviance is what may be deviant in one place‚ at one particular time‚ may not be deviant in another place and time. Basically with times changing something may or may not be tolerated as acceptable behavior. 2. What is situational deviance? Are there different degrees of deviance? Explain. Situational
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labelling theory suggests that most people commit deviant and criminal acts but only come are caught and stigmatised for it. It is for this reason that emphasis should be on understanding the reaction and definition of deviance rather than the causes of the initial act. Quote by Howard Becker 1963 “Deviancy is not a quality of the act a person commits but rather a consequence of the application by others of rules and sanctions to an ‘offender’. Deviant behaviour is behaviour that people so label.”
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excessive gambling‚ being nude in public places‚ lying to name only a few as deviant. Thus people who engage in deviant behavior are referred to as deviants. Deviance is looked at in terms of group processes‚ definitions‚ and judgments and not just as unusual individual acts. Sociologists also recognize that not all behaviors are judged similarly by all groups. What is deviant to one group may not be considered deviant to another. Further‚ sociologists recognize that established rules and norms are
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similar values and ways of behaving. Durkheim thinks that every society shares a set of core values‚ which he called value consensus or collective conscience. The more behaviour differs from the core values‚ the more likely it is to be interpreted as deviant. Interactionists are critical of this definition of deviance‚ as it implies that these definitions are fixed‚ absolute and universally shared. Interactionists also reject the idea that modern western societies are organized around a consensus of values
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early age and the child regularly attends some type of educational system is less likely to participate in deviant behavior. A child who grows up in a home that is not stable and that does not have clearly established rules that are to be followed is immediately put at a disadvantage. The more negative societal factors that are introduced into that child’s life increase the probability of deviant behavior later in that child’s life. These negative societal factors can include not regularly attending
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deviance is a learning theory known as the theory of differential association. This theory according to Giddens‚ A. (1991). focuses mainly on the processes by which individuals come to commit deviant and or criminal acts‚ it therefore explains deviant behavior in terms of an individual’s social relationships. created by Edwin H. Sutherland the theory opines that criminal behavior is learned through interactions with other people. Through
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population and put away the people who decide to be deviant. Although in the long run these can be good things crime also allows people to label each other in ways that wouldn’t have happened if crime was non-existent. It seems today that in our society people are getting labeled more often from people who do not really know the person personally. This is a bad habit that America is getting involved in. There are many different ways that juveniles can be deviant. Some deviance is as slight as running away
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These theories alone can explain the reasoning behind someone’s deviant behavior. But‚ in There Are No Children Here we see all of these theories being demonstrated. This lets us have an understanding of exactly why we are seeing the deviant behavior that we are. This learning theory is basically the idea that as you can be taught good behavior you could also be taught deviant behavior as well. Terence is taught to be deviant with drug sales. He is exposed to this early in life. This falls into
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