I’m No Angel: Violating the Production Code
Our textbook Sociology of Deviant Behavior explains relativist deviance as how no one is entitled to define deviance because social groups are the ones that create deviance by making rules that would label someone deviant (Ch.1, 6). When someone violates a norm (normative) they attract a negative reaction from their social audience. Society can and will label them as deviant depending on how strong they feel the violation is. The rules apply to everyone but the label is not always the same for the deviant person.
Absolutist deviance is an alternative definition of how deviance relies on values. Deviance results from a value judgment based on absolute standards. Societies values represent a general …show more content…
The purpose of the production code was to set moral guidelines to the film industry all around the United States. The film I’m No Angel came out in 1933 and it violated the production code in various ways. In the relativist deviance perspective the whole movie promoted deviance. Society did not approved the film because it promoted sex through all the movie. It only took a group of individuals to label the film deviant because it had certain actions that qualify as deviant through traditional or custom values. In the absolutist deviance perspective the film deviates societies values. It is labeled as a deviant film because it violates the societies absolute standards at that era (1933). The film violated the production code because it openly show viewers sexual desires, crime, drugs, and …show more content…
Analysis: Slick hits a businessman from Dallas in the head with a wine bottle because he is jealous Tira is with him. He justifies his crime for the sake of love.Although they did not show when Slick knocked him down, it was still presented to the audience.
Conclusion: Yes, it violates the law under murder. Slick even mentions on how they should get rid off the body. He also steals the man's ring before they leave.
Issue: Weapon
Rule: Use of firearms should be restricted to essentials.
Analysis: Tira has a pistol and whip when she goes in the cage with the lion. It shows the audience that it is alright to use a firearm and use it towards animals.
Conclusion: Yes, the rule strictly says no use of firearms and it still did. The pistol was also fired several times.
Issue: Crime against the law
Rule: The use of liquor should never be excessively presented.
Analysis: During the whole movie Tira and the others drink and smoke cigars. The film came out in 1933 when the prohibition had just ended. Too soon for alcohol to be shown in the motion picture.
Conclusion: It encourages the audience that it is alright to drink even when you are not in a social
Our textbook Sociology of Deviant Behavior explains relativist deviance as how no one is entitled to define deviance because social groups are the ones that create deviance by making rules that would label someone deviant (Ch.1, 6). When someone violates a norm (normative) they attract a negative reaction from their social audience. Society can and will label them as deviant depending on how strong they feel the violation is. The rules apply to everyone but the label is not always the same for the deviant person.
Absolutist deviance is an alternative definition of how deviance relies on values. Deviance results from a value judgment based on absolute standards. Societies values represent a general …show more content…
The purpose of the production code was to set moral guidelines to the film industry all around the United States. The film I’m No Angel came out in 1933 and it violated the production code in various ways. In the relativist deviance perspective the whole movie promoted deviance. Society did not approved the film because it promoted sex through all the movie. It only took a group of individuals to label the film deviant because it had certain actions that qualify as deviant through traditional or custom values. In the absolutist deviance perspective the film deviates societies values. It is labeled as a deviant film because it violates the societies absolute standards at that era (1933). The film violated the production code because it openly show viewers sexual desires, crime, drugs, and …show more content…
Analysis: Slick hits a businessman from Dallas in the head with a wine bottle because he is jealous Tira is with him. He justifies his crime for the sake of love.Although they did not show when Slick knocked him down, it was still presented to the audience.
Conclusion: Yes, it violates the law under murder. Slick even mentions on how they should get rid off the body. He also steals the man's ring before they leave.
Issue: Weapon
Rule: Use of firearms should be restricted to essentials.
Analysis: Tira has a pistol and whip when she goes in the cage with the lion. It shows the audience that it is alright to use a firearm and use it towards animals.
Conclusion: Yes, the rule strictly says no use of firearms and it still did. The pistol was also fired several times.
Issue: Crime against the law
Rule: The use of liquor should never be excessively presented.
Analysis: During the whole movie Tira and the others drink and smoke cigars. The film came out in 1933 when the prohibition had just ended. Too soon for alcohol to be shown in the motion picture.
Conclusion: It encourages the audience that it is alright to drink even when you are not in a social