Biological issue? (2) Personality factors? Reckless and Dinitz’s (1967) containment theory: strong moral standards and positive self-image delinquent X (3) social foundations of deviance: -varies according to cultural norms. -people become deviant as others define them that way. -both norms and the way people define rule-breaking involve social power. Approach to Deviance (A) Structural-Functional Analysis: The Functions of Deviance: (I) Emile Durkheim 1. affirms cultural values and
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“Many people living in poverty do not want to be living in poverty. In order to obtain a higher level of socioeconomic status‚ crime is seen as the only option.” (Wilson‚ 1987). Crime exists everywhere in the world – in rural and urban areas in many countries‚ in the East and West‚ and among all types of people. This has led many government officials‚ especially those in urban areas‚ to focus largely on the reduction of crime among their respective constituencies and has led others to speculate
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"positive" sides to deviance. For example‚ ice cream lovers in the United States have come to regard "Ben and Jerry’s" ice cream as one of the best brands on the market. But the founders of this product‚ Ben and Jerry‚ are generally regarded as "deviants" in the minds of the "established" corporate society. This is because they ran their highly successful business
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violate appearance expectations. Some of these deviants form deviant communities. These communities are driven by the need to achieve social cohesion and inclusion. There is much debate about why people modify‚ manipulate and mutilate their bodies involving tattoos and piercings. There are two main reasons that a functionalist would approach to understand this deviant behavior. First‚ tattoos and piercings give people a group membership in a deviant community‚ helping promote self identification
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“Sociologists refer to behaviour that is regarded as wrongdoing‚ that generates negative reaction in individuals who witness or hear about it‚ deviant behaviour‚ both deviant behaviour and traits or conditions that generate a similar condemnatory‚ rejecting reaction in others are called social deviance or simply deviance”. (Goode‚ 1994‚ p.1) Crime is a form of deviant behaviour. Deviance can be stated as a violation against norms and values of a wider society. For example one person accepts as a norm to
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socially deviant to be a homosexual. Eventually human rights became more relevant and integrated into North American culture‚ thus handing the gay community some insight from social structures and abolishing the theory of homosexuality as deviant. Just as well‚ several behaviours may be added to the category of abnormality to accomplish the same standpoint on deviance in today’s society. A myriad of social theories have been presented as to why and how individuals become branded deviant and thus
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both gangs participated in cheating during nearly every test (William J.C. “The Saints and the Roughnecks”). Moving towards the weekends‚ the Saints would flee to the Big Town‚ a large city next to Hanibal. By doing this‚ they are able to hide their deviant actions
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control through boundaries sets the parameters of what is right and wrong within a society thereby defining what behaviors are considered deviant. However‚ recent trends in the United States to lift some of these boundaries of social control‚ allowing for acceptance of behaviors that were considered deviant‚ raises the question whether this increases or decreases deviant
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the shifting boundaries of our socially structured reality. (Erikson‚ 1964) What is perceived as deviant behavior is subject to change depending on our position‚ place and time. Different cultures have different levels of social order and control‚ therefore making what can be seen as a deviant behavior in one culture highly acceptable in another. When we define someone or some group as deviant - we strengthen our own position and simplify our response to the "other": we can ignore‚ expunge
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living among other people. Norms and rules are set in each society‚ from rural ones to the largest urban environments‚ but this cannot prevent the attitudes by some individuals‚ that in the most of case gang up‚ to not follow these norms. They are the deviant ones and they are condemned to be considered not normal‚ sometimes just without choosing that. Paradoxically‚ most of actions and situations that are considered as normal‚ under a more peculiar analysis may be not so ‘normal’. For example‚ the norms
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