“I have to do something.” Those words will forever be in my head. Those were the last words my friend, Jesse, said to me. Previously that day, Jesse, his girlfriend named Destiny, and myself were all hanging out. We had been told that there was a fight planned for that evening at midnight. The people involved were Jesse’s cousin and Roy. I knew Roy because he was my next door neighbor. We had been friends for years. This fight had gotten started over Twitter and Roy had made some threats. Jesse wanted to go to the fight to make sure his cousin didn’t get too hurt. Fights were really common in my town and the police never really did anything to stop them. Once Jesse, Destiny, and I all got to the school grounds where the fight was going to happen,
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According to the encyclopedia (Tittle 2002), there is the statistical approach which observes how people in a group actually behave. If the larger of the population does one thing, then not doing it is seen as deviant. Another way to see if the act is deemed deviant is the absolutist approach. Someone like a social scientist decides what is considered good and just, and then figures out the types of deviations from those acts through criteria. A lot of people don’t like this approach because they think that someone can’t decide for a whole community what is good for them, but some believe that through logic and research, someone can decide what acts are good for society. The third way to see if an act is socially deviant is through the legalistic approach. This is, as a I mentioned earlier, is how the law prohibits as act, or a failure to perform a certain act. Most societies go by this approach since it is deemed safe and there are professionals to help protect people from those deviant acts. Murder is a serious deviant act and is taken very seriously by all societies because of the severity of it. It is a brutal act that has to be one of the top deviant acts against …show more content…
In the US, the sentence can be anywhere from just a few years to the death penalty, which is very rare. In other countries, and even some of our state here in the US, the death penalty is used a lot more. This has to do with how that society in general defines social deviance and what acts qualify for it. Some countries allow the beating of spouses, while here in the US, it is illegal. Every society has their own ideas about what is deviant and the severity of that act. All deviant acts have consequences whether they are good or bad. A socially deviant act is something that goes against norms, which could really be a lot of things. It could go from something like piercings all the way to murder. Murder is one of the worst deviant acts a person can commit because it takes someone’s life and has horrible effects of those who knew the victim. This socially deviant act is frowned upon and will never be an acceptable thing as long as the law and government works and upholds the
According to the encyclopedia (Tittle 2002), there is the statistical approach which observes how people in a group actually behave. If the larger of the population does one thing, then not doing it is seen as deviant. Another way to see if the act is deemed deviant is the absolutist approach. Someone like a social scientist decides what is considered good and just, and then figures out the types of deviations from those acts through criteria. A lot of people don’t like this approach because they think that someone can’t decide for a whole community what is good for them, but some believe that through logic and research, someone can decide what acts are good for society. The third way to see if an act is socially deviant is through the legalistic approach. This is, as a I mentioned earlier, is how the law prohibits as act, or a failure to perform a certain act. Most societies go by this approach since it is deemed safe and there are professionals to help protect people from those deviant acts. Murder is a serious deviant act and is taken very seriously by all societies because of the severity of it. It is a brutal act that has to be one of the top deviant acts against …show more content…
In the US, the sentence can be anywhere from just a few years to the death penalty, which is very rare. In other countries, and even some of our state here in the US, the death penalty is used a lot more. This has to do with how that society in general defines social deviance and what acts qualify for it. Some countries allow the beating of spouses, while here in the US, it is illegal. Every society has their own ideas about what is deviant and the severity of that act. All deviant acts have consequences whether they are good or bad. A socially deviant act is something that goes against norms, which could really be a lot of things. It could go from something like piercings all the way to murder. Murder is one of the worst deviant acts a person can commit because it takes someone’s life and has horrible effects of those who knew the victim. This socially deviant act is frowned upon and will never be an acceptable thing as long as the law and government works and upholds the