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    pressures from all dominant values. Those that feel that they can’t achieve in society by legitimate means and experience social frustration‚ Merton says they turn to crime in order to attain wealth‚ while Cohen says they instead they form a subculture that turn the norms of a larger society upside down. In Cohen’s explanation‚ crime is valued within gangs and so allows retaliation against society and a way to gain status in the eyes of peers. A youth sub-culture has distinct styles‚ behaviors‚ and

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    functional perspective on deviance maintains that our society is a system of social institutions‚ that work together to make up whole. These institutions are based on our needs and balance each other to give our norms and morals significance. If some part of this whole is not useful‚ it will disappear; and in the same way if something is absent‚ but needed‚ it will be created. Deviant behavior is necessary in our society‚ because it provides justification for our norms. If there were no deviance there

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    What is workplace Deviance? Workplace deviance refers to voluntary employee behaviors that violate important company rules‚ guidelines or standards and endanger the well-being of the organization and / or its members. Examples of deviances are both workplace behaviors that are directed at organizations (eg‚ robbery‚ sabotage‚ late work and little work) and at the workplace‚ such as supervisors or employees. Behavior of a Deviance workplace 1. Unsupported behavior 2. Workplace aggression 3. Motivated

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    Deviance is an action or behavior that violates social or cultural norms. It can be categorized into two categories‚ formal and informal. Formal deviance is a criminal act as dictated by the law. Social norms dictate informal deviance. The functionalist perspective of deviance is that crime is inevitable because not everyone can or will be equally committed. A lot of social change seems to begin with a form of deviance. For example‚ the Civil Rights Movement. People such as Rosa Parks who

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    17/10/2014 Compare culture and social organisation in any two societies‚ making reference to at least two different sociological theories and key concepts associated with them. Within every society‚ and every community or settlement across the globe‚ there is undoubtedly one thing that they have in common; we identify this as ‘culture’. “Culture is a design for living” (Clyde

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    SOCIOLOGY PERSPECTIVES Collectivism and the New Right Aims & Objectives    Aims:- to research two further theories of sociology – Collectivism and the New Right – P1 to link these two theories to explanations of health or ill-health provision – P2 Objectives:- by the end of this lesson you will be able to begin your posters as the assessments for Collectivism and the New Right – (P1 & P2) Re-cap  Can you remember what we discussed last week . . ?  Researched the given task for the

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    is a cat and their prey can be birds. The relativist perspective is about how social groups create the rules and they as a group decided what isn’t part of the rules. So when an individual steps outside what the group sees as their normal the behavior is considered deviant (Adler & Adler‚ 2016). Society has made Sylvester out to be deviant because cultural norms see that he continually repeats an “unacceptable” behavior. This situation of deviance is one where the normal behavior isn’t considered but

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    Social Norms and Deviance Many people will go through their daily routine‚ and not think much of it. Being integrated in the society that one is accustomed to‚ a person may overlook the very fundamentals of what that society stands on. Since childhood‚ beginning at the moment of birth‚ a person is taught what is “wrong” and what is “right.” These very values that we are taught to adopt since a young age are known as Social Norms. A social norm is a rule of society that governs behavior

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    In chapter one we are introduced to the term sociological imagination. This is when social forces impact individuals. For instance take a woman getting pregnant at a young age. Their problem doesn’t directly impact you so you don’t feel troubled by it but rather feel remorse or empathy. Mainly C. Wright Mills used this. The term social problem is used by sociologists that see it as a social condition that is an issue among more than a small amount of individuals. Stating its and objective reality

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    together because they love each other and want to raise a family. The Sociological explanation of marriage is more focused on monogamy and economic factors. Social factors such as conformity and financial aspects also play a major part in this explanation. Individualistic outlooks on suicide often view suicide as the most individual of acts and as mainly being committed by either unhappy or mentally ill individuals. Sociological views perceive suicide as a social pattern‚ being affected by factors

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