Informative Corrections: Societal Rules And Violations

Society has certain rules and regulations in place to help maintain order over the people, and violations of the rules and regulations result in sanctions being applied to the action that has occurred. Informal negative sanctions are punishments for violating norms with face-to-face social interaction. According to Kerins et al (2015), “deviance is a violation of established contextual, cultural, or social norms” (136). There have been many cases where I have seen a deviant person doing something wrong and someone has used informal negative sanctions to try and maintain the order of society. An example would be an angry comment at someone who is swearing in church, or giving disapproving looks to someone who is not behaving well. The norms of society must be upheld by noticing the wrong behavior and punishing those who stray from the …show more content…
This can be defined as a deviant behavior because it is against the norms of society to try and get into someone’s home when you do not have permission in my society. I woke up one night at four in the morning to a young man standing outside of my window screaming loudly and trying to unlock the window to get inside of my home. I tried to see if it was someone that I knew who needed my help, but I had no idea who the person was. This behavior was very bad considering it was the middle of the night and I had been woken up by his screaming, and I had no clue who this person was. My first reaction was to tell him to go away because he was obviously at the wrong house, but he continued to bang on my windows and scream at me. The guy knew what he was doing was not normal but he continued to do it anyways. After I noticed he would not leave me alone my last option was to call the police so they could deal with him. I screamed down to him that I had called the cops, but this did not affect his behavior at