Is Deviance A Social Norm?

On Wednesday, September 23rd, I decided to perform an “antisocial” experiment. This consisted of me not talking to anyone for a whole twenty-four hours. The experiment included or rather prohibited me from texting, nodding, talking, and or various other forms of communication with other human beings. I thought this was the perfect way of displaying a social norm without going too an extreme, but I also knew I would acquire a wide range of different results. Although the idea itself sounds simple, in the world we live in today this experiment was definitely not going to be easy. As I am a talkative and outgoing person, I knew this

“Deviance in sociological context describes actions or behaviors that violate cultural norms including formally-enacted rules (e.g., crime) as well as informal violations of social norms.”

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 expect of students such as being on time, completing assignments and following school ground rules. The bureaucratic organization emphasizes the rules and procedures among their workers. The government expresses social control through law

Deviance is “any behavior that does not conform to social expectations.” The statement, “Deviance is socially constructed” means that because individuals that rebel against the norms of social group, and use deviant behavior, others will join in and this creates a whole new social group. For instance, gay marriage. This has always been considered something wrong and people shouldn’t do it. Although, people started to become deviant and say that it isn’t wrong and that people should be able to love who they so please. Now, since the summer of 2015, gay marriage has been legalized all across the nation and all of these people fit under one social group. Deviance is relative because the rules for each group vary, so in that case it is relative

Deviance is an act that goes against the social norms such as rules or expectations. It can be something small such as running through the stop signs or it can be something big such as hijacking an airplane. Deciding if the act is deviant or not depends on the context (society, environment, etc.). According to Howard S. Becker, it is not the act itself, but the reactions to the act that, makes something deviant. Deviance is not a word that is used for judging people, but it is used to refer to an act to which people respond negatively. Norms vary among different cultural groups, therefore, one deviant act in one group might not be deviant to another. For example, it will be considered deviant or going against the norm if someone decided to

Jennifer Schrier, Lizbeth Velasco, Alexandra Perez Professor Marenco Sociology 20 October 2017 Youtube Clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NPwrmfRVwoA Youtube Project For our group project, we have chosen to write about Deviance. Deviance is defined as an action or behavior that violates social norms. Norms are social expectations that guide our everyday behaviors.

As we all have observed, throughout history each culture or society has unique norms that are acceptable to that group of people. Therefore, to establish and come to the acceptance of these basic norms, each society must develop its’ own strategies and techniques to encourage the fundamentals of behavior, which is clear in our modern society. Most do assume that everyone in a society will follow and respect such norms. However, some tend to deviate from the adequate norms and demonstrate deviant behavior. Nevertheless, we are inclined to ask ourselves, why do people decide to violate such important standards of living?

This textbook example would be extremely deviant to the American culture. American laws would not be accepting of such a criminal act to be performed as punishment for adultery. In America it is not illegal to commit adultery, but it is illegal to tie up and beat someone. Americans do feel by majority that the adultery act is deviant, but punishment that the Pokot women carried out are not accepted as a valid punishment in America.

Deviance is the variation from a set of norms or shared social expectations and deviants as the people who violate these shared expectations (page 149). A person may think of deviance or deviant act, as someone who is breaking the law or have some type of behave problem. What do you consider a deviant act?

My act of deviance was to wear a pajama set with slippers and to carry my sock monkey around with me to all of my classes. As simple as my act may seem, I actually several norms. The first norm is that you normally wear pajamas to bed, and every day, casual clothes to class. The second norm is that you wear slippers around your house and have different shoes you wear out. The third norm is that stuffed animals are owned by small children. All of my norms are based off the value of conformity. It makes people uncomfortable when someone deviates, so that’s exactly what

First of all, the capacity of some vested groups to assemble mass communications to impact the values of others through good campaigns focused toward specific behaviours, for example, homosexual relations, people suiciding, smoking in public places, illegal drug uses, etc., can easily influence the sorts of behaviours that are characterized as either criminal or accepted by the society (Henry, 2009: 2). This stands in correlation to the human attempt to make a moral social order in which some behaviour is characterized as deviant or unacceptable and other conduct is characterized as acceptable, through the making of rules that subject rule violators to sanctions and don 't allow some behaviours. Though deviance is taken to be an infringement of social standards, crime on the other hand is seen as an infringement of criminal law, and though deviance is behaviour seen as distinctive and also is contrarily evaluated as morally offensive and threatening, were crime on the other hand is seen as destructive financially, physically, mentally and socially bringing about people who have been victimized or who endure a loss, a constraint of what they were preceding the offence (Henry and Lanier, 2001).

Imagine someone rich or powerful committing crimes without the fear of serving consequences. The crime may include murder, robbery, or stealing. Deviance is a label for an action or behavior that violates social norms. Social norms are rules or expectations which usually guide members of society. Deviance is nonconformity to these norms. Social norms can vary from culture to culture and is defined in numerous ways. Many researchers believe that deviance is a violation of social norms. Some believe deviant behavior is breaking the law or acting in a negative manner. Sociologists use specific words to classify deviant actions from a sociological perspective. There are crimes that are deviant actions and not deviant acts. For example; this

Social deviance is a violation of social norms. So what qualifies as a social deviant? According to sociologist, Howard S. Becker the best definition of social deviance is, “It is not the act itself, but the reactions to the act, that do something deviant.” In cultures around the world, there are many practices Americans find deviant, but in other cultures, it’s the norm. In many countries around the world, girls are married as young as 11 years old. To Americans, that is considered child abuse and rape, but that is only because of our social norms. To the men and parents in different countries, it is perfectly normal because their social norms. In America, social deviance comes in many different forms. We have our sexual deviants,

Theories of Deviance are limited in their ability to explain deviant acts if one adopts the view that these theories are universal. There is no universal, right or wrong theory, rather each theory provides a different perspective which only "fully makes sense when set within an appropriate societal context and values framework" .

In the United States of America, societal deviance changes nearly on a daily basis. Depending on the current culture, deviance is modified to make societal heroes like celebrities, political figures, and sport players look less deviant and more like role models for the public. The change in what is considered “normal” is customarily a result of society in general. By using a reference group of people, individuals tend to identify with those who are in the lime light. Then when that role model does something appalling, the public becomes desensitized to this behavior and its abnormality and becomes less distinct thus adding to the change in social deviances.