Deviance, Social Device And Social Control

It is no secret that the socially constructed concept of deviance is a label that is able to form a certain stigma to those who the label has been applied. Deviance is simply a violation of any societal norm. Any behavior that is deemed odd or irregular by the majority may be considered deviant. These behaviors and actions may produce different reactions from outsiders, or possibly none at all, depending on the audience or norm that had been broken. Anyone who decides to go against these norms will not only receive such a label, but will most likely be casted out or punished in some way by the public.

People consider an act to be a deviance act because of the three sociological theories: control theory, labeling theory and strain theory. It deeply reflected in the movie called "Menace II Society".

Once a person is labelled as a deviant, it is hard to remove that label. The Labeling Theory basically says that no behavior is deeply rooted on its own. It is society’s reaction to the behavior that makes the act deviant or not. Labeling is to give someone or something to a category and is usually given mistakenly. The people who usually doing the labeling have statues, numbers, power and authority. People with low status, power and authority are the ones that are being labeled.

As a matter of fact, several individuals have discussed the fact that social deviance can also be seen as some sort of social control. Social control is commonly known as the subordination of personal interests to public interests (Shipunova, 2016). It is also seen as society’s attempt to regulate the thinking and behavior of people (Shipunova, 2016). As we saw with the Michaels case, she was given the reputation of a deviant person, more specifically, of a sexual offender, to ensure the stability of the society. Even though she was declared innocent by the Supreme Court, the continuation of labeling her as deviant can be perceived as the community’s attempt to control Michaels actions. It is said that the social control of deviance, and everything

As such, conforming members of society, who interpret certain behaviors as deviant and then attach this label to individuals, determine the distinction between deviance and non-deviance. As one examines the ideology of the labeling theory let us first question who actually places what label to whom, why they do this, and what happens as a result of this labeling. Authoritative people within the general public such as politicians, judges, police officers, and many more usually enforce the most noteworthy tags. People who are labeled generally are drug addicts, alcoholics, criminals, delinquents, prostitutes, sex offenders, and psychiatric patients. Since I am African American I choose to examine this theory since it pertains to me. Typically the penalties of being labeled as criminals or lawbreakers can be broad. Social examination looks at those who have negative labels and states that they usually have lower self-images, they are more likely to cast-off themselves, and may even act more rebelliously as a result of the label. Unfortunately, people who agree with the labeling of other no matter if it is correct or incorrect. They have a hard time shifting their views of the labeled person even if it might not be

Deviance is any behavior that violates the standards of established, societal norms, or written law rules.

Deviance is defined as the behaviors, beliefs, and attributes that violate social norms and elicit a reaction. For my deviant act, I wore two different shoes to my four year old cousin's birthday party. This would be considered deviant because I broke the social norm of wearing a matching set of shoes. I could also be breaking another social norm because I wore a sandal when it was rainy and cold. Typically, sandals are not worn when it becomes cooler outside.

According to the glossary in the textbook deviance is defined as “the violation of norms (or rules or expectations)” (Henslin, 2015). But on page 158 in our textbook “sociologists use the term deviance to refer to any violation of norms, whether the infraction is as minor as driving over the speed limit, as serious as murder, or as humorous as Changnon’s encounter with the Yanomamo” (Henslin, 2015, pp.158). Some ways that deviant behaviors can bring about social change is by changing the social order, meaning that “our lives are based on these arrangements, which is why deviance often is perceived as threatening: Deviance undermines predictability, the foundation of social life” (Henslin, 2015, pp. 159). Deviance contributes to the social order

Deviance according to sociologist is the behavior the one part takes in the that is not the norm, and can generate a negative reaction from certain groups. From a sociological perspective deviance is important because it reveals about the society we live in. Deviance requires us to examine and analyze why certain people and even certain groups chose to partake in a certain manor. By examining deviancent behavior we also recognize what the norm is. Labeling theory through a deviant approach states that deviance is caused by others people’s judgment of them, meaning that when a label is put on us more than often we tend conform to label. For example if people begin to label someone as an angry person then he will be under pressure to be

Deviance is defined as the violation of social norms. Someone who is deviant usually breaks a rule and is engaged even in a small negative act such as a fistfight. Deviant acts can be considered serious offenses in our society, but may be tolerated in another. Let’s say for example, an earthquake hits the United States and the victims steal bread, water, clothes or any such thing to feed their families, this act is deviant but understandable. Different groups of people define deviant acts differently from one another. For example, a parent may define their 16 year old as deviant for smoking, meanwhile their son defines his best friend as deviant for not smoking. “Deviance is socially constructed and dependent on the time and social context.” (Page 147. Ballatine,Roberts,Korgen)

To begin, social deviance is defined as to any violation of norms such as minor ones like getting a speeding ticket, or as serious as a murder. Then, social control is defined as formal and informal means of enforcing norms in a group. The conflict relationship between social deviance and social control is that conflict theorists regard power and social inequality as the main characteristic of society. It was given as an example from the book that when the power elite was to break a norm, the criminal justice system does not enforce strict punishment on the executives of cooperation because the criminal justice system doesn't want to outrage the working class so that's why power elite have a bypass not having to go to court or be imprison only

Deviance has had many definitions over the years as sociology has evolved and reevaluated the changing world. Although the definitions created by prominent sociologists including Erickson, Humphrey and Becker, differ there are resounding commonalities include the attention drawn to behavior outside of social norms, the label of deviance being transferred to an individual by way of social consensus and finally the societal reaction to the behavior that will either define it as deviant or not (Franzese, 2009). Most easily identified deviance is that of crime, murder, rape and theft to name a few, although these are obvious examples they are only a handful of types of deviance out of a much larger pool of deviant acts some of which that are

Primary deviance referred to individuals who commit nonviolent behaviors, sometimes referred to as rule breakers. It should be noted that an individual does not reach this level of primary deviance unless they are caught and labeled. When an individual is stigmatized and treated as deviant, they began to identity themselves with groups who also labeled, resulting in them adjusting their behavior to fit this identity as deviant. For Lemert, secondary deviance exists when an individual chooses to accept and employ to their deviant status, committing more frequently and more violent crimes.

Deviance is any behavior,

The following article opened up by firstly stating that as social units becomes larger with differentiations, people are going to become accustomed to social control which is currently foreign to modern day living. Gibbs, the writer of the article, challenges sociologists to question norms, deviance and social control so that they will be able to formulate a different concept of what social control is. The writer points out that current theory of social control only associate it with organizations and institutions. This means that the theories nowadays think that social control naturally flows from organizations and institutions.