Defiant Behavior: A Sociological Analysis

When the average person hears the word deviance, negative thoughts would most likely come to mind. If a sociologist heard the word deviance they would disagree and recognize that deviance is not necessarily bad. In fact from a sociologist functionalist perspective, one of the positive contributions of deviance is that is fosters social change (Openstax, 2015). Defiant behavior wouldn’t necessarily be liked by anyone. Because sociologist find defiant behavior not bad, they use it to see the changes in the world around us.

There are three different perspectives when it comes to deviance which are, Functionalist, Conflict theory and the symbolic interactionist. A conflict theorist see’s deviance as a negative issue. Conflict theory