The Effects Of Deviance On Academic Performance

While reading Ken Bain’s book “What the Best College Students Do” of the five different types of students he describes, I feel like I fall under the label of one having mediocre grades but achieving success. I make good grades, however I do not necessarily believe my grades always reflect my hard work, determination and effort put in, similar to his theory on false hope in standardized testing. Throughout my school career, I have consistently made A and B grades. I can remember only one C grade, which was a quarter grade, and very disappointing, but a lesson learned. At the same time though, and as Bain helped me realize through his text, grades are not everything and making a C is not something that is going to kill me; there is simply more to school than a letter grade. In fact he points out through most of the 1800s schools only used two grades, pass or fail. As seen nowadays, schools have since adopted the letter grade system.

People who suffer from personality disorders often display deviant behavior. The mental illness itself is not deviant. They typically have problems with social skills, mood swings, emotional states, and are often unable to maintain healthy, stable relationships. Many sufferers do not possess the capability to have genuine emotions, including empathy for others. A personality disorder is the basis of many circumstances of maladaptive behavior including substance abuse, self-harm, suicide, and criminality.

In the United States there appears to be a trend of young male Hispanics dropping out of high school at alarming rates. A social pathologist would blame this trend on the young males themselves and argue that the demographic group is inherently deviant. Perhaps they haven’t evolved the correct brain structures to succeed in school or maybe they have a faulty gene or a hormone imbalance. Whatever the reason, a social pathologist would argue that there is something in the group that makes them defectively different from the rest of the population and unable to stay in school. Since the cause of the deviance is inherent, there is little that society can do to help the individual. The best thing to do, in the eyes of this perspective, would be to remove these males from the society and prevent them from reproducing and spreading the defect.

Teens who have found it hard to deal with authority, emotions, and or puberty have found it easier to kill rather than to seek help. Some have thoughts of caring out these deviant acts at an early age. When medication is mixed with the feelings that puberty bring there is a mixture for disaster. Sometimes psychological mishaps lead to problematic circumstances making it harder for teens to deal with these complications. Teens also who are ridiculed daily by classmates, peers, and even adults found themselves hopeless and sought out murder or suicide sometimes a combination of both. Those teens who are made fun of daily by everyone they cross may feel as though they will be made fun of further after searching for help. So they tend to hold in all the feelings and bottle the emotions making them go to darker places and possibly looking for revenge for those who put them down. Sometimes these individuals that do the harm don’t notice the demolition of a person’s character. That just one person could make a difference in the downward spiral of the life a stake. In many cases all it ever takes is for one person to morally treat another person right and it could change the person who is suffering’s life. “Lanza used to be a mild-mannered student in high school, making the honor roll, and living with his mother, Nancy Lanza, who in turn loved playing dice games and decorating their upscale home for the holidays. A student in his tenth grade Honors English class recalled he was

What sociologist mean when they describe deviance as being relative, is deviance isn't a permanent perception. What one culture may view as deviant another may not. Some cultures believe in eating dog and cat as food. Whereas the US culture believe dogs and cats are supposed to be kept as pets. For example it has been known to that South Korea believes an eating dogs. If I went to visit them being from the US with my pet dog they would probably see it as non normal behavior. Most of their people don't keep dogs as a pet so they may see it as deviant behavior.

Deviation is a term that refers to non-compliance with a particular rule or set of rules accepted by most members of society. A deviation can be changed from time to time and from place to place. Crime is a violation and violation of laws. Laws indicate rules defined and defined by governments. The social community recognizes that individuals learn to adhere to social norms through interaction with law-abiding individuals. Society establishes and implements a set of sanctions to promote social norms and standards. Sanctions can be negative or positive and can be formal or informal. That in some areas of subcultures certain environments encourage illegal behavior while other environments do not encourage it. Criminal

Everyone in today's society has participated in forms of deviant behavior whether they're aware of it or not! Deviant behavior refers to violations of social norms. Norms are behavioral codes or prescriptions that guide people into actions and self-presentations conforming to social acceptability. American sociologists, William Sumner (1907) formed three types of norms: folkways, mores, and laws. The behavior I partaken in is considered to be Mores. Mores is based on norms that would generate social condemnation. Individuals who usually violate mores may be considered wicked or bad and potentially harmful to society. To a certain extent some acts would be considered deviant depending on who commits the act or who feels they have been harmed

Not to mention my own personal experience involving deviant behavior begin at the age of eight years old when I was caught smoking weed with some hustlers form the neighborhood. Because I was eight and the hustlers were well in their twenties and we all hung together on the regular caused older adults often frown in disapproval especially when they saw me drinking Jack Daniels whiskey out the bottle. A lot of times I did this out of deviance where I would sit on the stoop outside of their door or walkway and wait for them to exit their home to ask them if they wanted a puff. While kids my age where in school reading and writing I was in the streets learning street ethic 101. Furthermore, social disorganization as described by the professors

In today’s education system, grades and getting accepted into that top University and College is what matters to the majority of students. Kohn’s “How not to get into College: The Preoccupation with Preparation” suggests that grades are what controls every student’s life and that nothing else matters. Pressure rises exponentially to get above that cut off mark and squeezing every point to get a higher GPA is definitely reality.

The study of deviant behavior is one of the more complex studies of sociology. “Deviants are those individuals who do not live by the rules that the majority of us follow.”(Giddens, A., Duneier, M., Appelbaum, R. P., & Carr, D) “Some do so by choice; others are incapable of following the rules because they lack the resources to do so.(Giddens, A., Duneier, M., Appelbaum, R. P., & Carr, D) In the reality of our societies, we are all different, and no one society or individual is better than the next. Nor can our behaviors honestly be classified as better than the next. The common day practices in society are based on power, class, and conformity. These divisions of society play a major role in what is normal and what is considered to be deviant behavior.

Hundreds of years ago philosophers and criminologists developed theories of deviant behavior based on social and religious morals. Scientific observations were not employed nor was there empirical research to determine why some people were deviant. When people behaved in deviant or immoral ways, it led those who were in positions of authority to theorize about the nature of good and evil.

ANALYSIS This case shows three deviant individuals, Valessa, Adam, Jon. They all violated the norms that society finds acceptable (Clinard 2014). It is considered out of the norm for children to disobey their parents, engage in activities without parental consent, participate in underage drinking and drugs.

On October 3, 2017, at eight in the morning, a few classmates and I decided to be deviant. We wanted to grab our classmate’s attention and see their reaction when three of us ripped posters off the wall in the classroom and that is when the learning theory (Warehime, Learning Theory, 2017) came in effect because one student talked into participating in the act. That was our deviant act for the day and to see the way our classmates reacted was quite shocking. Participating in this defiant act gave me a sociological perspective on how my classmates were raised in this society and how they are shaped as an individual. I violated a norm, realized the attitudes I got from everyone, seen what kind of reaction they had, and the way I felt after I ripped the poster off the wall.

Deviance is described as being behaviour that is not part of the norms in your particular society. This can be different throughout the world because some cultures have very different norms (Stephens and Leach, 1998:17). Most deviant behaviour will attract disapproval from others in the society or punishment from authorities. There are many different types of deviance such as addiction, mental illness, alcoholism, criminality and homosexuality. Throughout this essay six types of theories will be discussed about how and why people are deviant. Four of these theories support the idea of deviance being biological and three support the idea of it being caused by your social construction. Also the essay will talk about the differences between

Media and society has played a big role in how people should behave and what is considered wrong from right. Sometimes it is not the act that was done, but the reactions people have towards it that makes it deviant. Deviant is any behavior, belief, or condition and trait that violates social norms in society or group in which it occurs. This is a reason why people react so defensive when something usual happens even though sometimes it might not be deviant to others. The norm I broke was the respect to others, but specifically not being respectful to your partner.