Deviance and Social Control What is a “deviant” act? It is the be behavior that violates social norms and expectation. Deviant act can be spotted as an outsider in the social world. They can be categorized into two groups; the informal and formal (Chambliss, 2014, 264). The formal deviance takes back to the concepts of criminal acts and can be punished by the law. The informal deviant acts are more related to the negation of the social norm (Chambliss, 2014, 269). There is also the positive deviance that is results of over conformity and the negative deviance is the under conformity (Chambliss, 2014, 264). Now what is conformity? Conformity is the act of matching attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors to groups norms. They are the ability of human’s
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Chambliss that captured the ideas of what is wrong and how people behave once they been caught doing something wrong (Chambliss, 2014, 264). They highlighted the fact on who is more likely to get punished. The Saint were the student who were high achievers; they did great in school and participated in out of school activities (Chambliss, 2014, 266). In other hand, the Roughnecks were known to be the troublemaker in and outside of school. They made the conclusion that saints carried being wealthy and had an outstanding performance in life (Chambliss, 2014, 266). The rednecks would have a life filled with crime and hatred. Throughout the article, it takes a turn when they start to showcase the deviance on the saints and the roughnecks (Chambliss, 2014, 271). When a saint made a wrong behavior claim, they did not get in major troubles like the roughnecks. Saints made the accustom of always doing good, but when they would rebel people would generally think it was an accident and it would never happen again (Chambliss, 2014, 281). They would secretly rebel because they would the right necessities to get away without punishments like having money and cars. Roughnecks were looked as opposites; they were poor and had crucial experience with the police. They were constantly related to violence in fighting and gang activities (Chambliss, 2014, 264). These two social groups had their pros and cons; the boy’s …show more content…
Clark, Valerie J. Haines, and George M.Dickhoff is the study of the student population cheating as an undesirable behavior. Students participated in a surveyed based of the cheating behavior and the outcome of the issue (LaBeff, 2014, 305). They showed statically results where54% said there cheated on exams, homework, or plagiarism (LaBeff, 2014, 305). The seen that neutralizing attitudes changed the cheating behavior believed they should have not been punished such in majorly way under certain circumstance; this was defining deviant acts of the student’s behavior towards such a wrong doing (LaBeff, 2014, 305). Speaking of wrong doings, the article Denying the Guilty Mind: Accounting for Involvement in a White-Collar Crime by Michael L. Benson is a series of interviews with thirty convicted white collar offender committing crime violations (Benson, 2014,304). It talked about the subject of fraud, false claims, tax violations, and more (Benson, 2014,306). Many of these claims were denied and not reported by news media (Benson, 2014,305). The tension between defense and prosecution attorney out busted in the article by brushing off these comments and ignoring the law. The social power that these officials contained created the deviance that restricted the social norm. In both articles the social behavior is measured be violating the norms like committing a crime or cheating
Chambliss that captured the ideas of what is wrong and how people behave once they been caught doing something wrong (Chambliss, 2014, 264). They highlighted the fact on who is more likely to get punished. The Saint were the student who were high achievers; they did great in school and participated in out of school activities (Chambliss, 2014, 266). In other hand, the Roughnecks were known to be the troublemaker in and outside of school. They made the conclusion that saints carried being wealthy and had an outstanding performance in life (Chambliss, 2014, 266). The rednecks would have a life filled with crime and hatred. Throughout the article, it takes a turn when they start to showcase the deviance on the saints and the roughnecks (Chambliss, 2014, 271). When a saint made a wrong behavior claim, they did not get in major troubles like the roughnecks. Saints made the accustom of always doing good, but when they would rebel people would generally think it was an accident and it would never happen again (Chambliss, 2014, 281). They would secretly rebel because they would the right necessities to get away without punishments like having money and cars. Roughnecks were looked as opposites; they were poor and had crucial experience with the police. They were constantly related to violence in fighting and gang activities (Chambliss, 2014, 264). These two social groups had their pros and cons; the boy’s …show more content…
Clark, Valerie J. Haines, and George M.Dickhoff is the study of the student population cheating as an undesirable behavior. Students participated in a surveyed based of the cheating behavior and the outcome of the issue (LaBeff, 2014, 305). They showed statically results where54% said there cheated on exams, homework, or plagiarism (LaBeff, 2014, 305). The seen that neutralizing attitudes changed the cheating behavior believed they should have not been punished such in majorly way under certain circumstance; this was defining deviant acts of the student’s behavior towards such a wrong doing (LaBeff, 2014, 305). Speaking of wrong doings, the article Denying the Guilty Mind: Accounting for Involvement in a White-Collar Crime by Michael L. Benson is a series of interviews with thirty convicted white collar offender committing crime violations (Benson, 2014,304). It talked about the subject of fraud, false claims, tax violations, and more (Benson, 2014,306). Many of these claims were denied and not reported by news media (Benson, 2014,305). The tension between defense and prosecution attorney out busted in the article by brushing off these comments and ignoring the law. The social power that these officials contained created the deviance that restricted the social norm. In both articles the social behavior is measured be violating the norms like committing a crime or cheating