Cultural Deviance Theory In School

Before reading the first book just from the title I made an assumption that it as about the young boys looked over by society. I have never stopped to think about the problem of misbehaving children in public or privates schools seeing as how I attended both. After reading the sections for our class I have developed my own opinion on the subject or as stated in class the problem. Reflecting on the discussions in class and the book I have made a personal connection with the topic of the punishing room. As discussed in class it is felt that this was a place of get away for so called bad children like some kind of sanitary. It was also stated that the children sent there have little hope of getting the education that others not in the punishing …show more content…
I guess in some school institutions these topics were a huge part of the delinquent children that were mostly labeled as delinquent. I really think that theses issues differ from school to school also country region meaning west to east and north to south. Through that perspective I relate that topic to the Cultural Deviance theory of Sheldon. The Theory is explained as being shaped crime or deviant value systems, deviants form from the norms of middle class to improvised culture (Sheldon). As far profiling, the deviance differs from school to school. While I attended a majority white private Christian school, the issue of deviant children was nearly non existent. After leaving there moving on to public education the atmosphere defiantly changed as far as class. The low SES (social economic status) of the child was a big factor if you look at the children that were considered to be deviant. In school suspension was full of children of all race but the majority of those children came from middle to lower class neighborhoods, unfortunately majority that fell in that category were black boys. As far as Ferguson's perspective I can see why she would lean toward the opinion of black boys being picked on a singles out. Not all of them are bad but just get singled out by hanging with the wrong crowd, which I fell victim to on several …show more content…
After thinking about the facts the surround the ongoing issue of teen pregnancy, Luker supports that "It would be better to see early childbearing as a symptom like infant mortality not a cause, but a marker of events, an indicator of the extent to which many young people have been excluded from the American Dream" (Luker 182). By making this statement I believe she is making a point that early pregnancy can be directly associated with that of poverty. In some aspects I agree and disagree because like I stated before I grew up in a single parent home on the low income side, but I must have been one if the lucky ones or just more educated then some. I do agree with her statement that pregnancy is not what causes teens to be poor, but rather poverty that causes teens to become