Disgus Informal Social Deviant Analysis

society are not looked at as deviant whereas if a person, such as a person who is visibly a drug addict, a prostitute, or the homeless are seen as deviant and criminal because informal social control has no effect on them (Chriss, 2013, 76). Any deviation from what people expect from each other in everyday life is considered deviant. If informal social control has no effect on people, until they change to be part of the norms of society, they will always be viewed as deviant. Informal social control has little to no policies related to this type of control group. Every aspect of this type of social control is unwritten and influence by relationships and social pressures put on a person. In Harold Garfinkel’s breaching experiments “suggested that there are unwritten rules in place in society, and the best way to figure out how important those rules are is to break them” (King, 2015). This means there is a varying degree in which social rules are valued in society and the harsher the reaction the bigger the importance that rule was. For example, if you murder someone this action will have very negative reactions in society, whereas if you don’t bathe and are stinky you will most likely just be stared at with …show more content…
It covers every aspect of society and even in neighborhoods that have little social control because socialization has taught them not to use informal control as a means to regulate society. In most of society, however, it affects our everyday lives. According to the dramaturgical theory people have their back stage, only what they show themselves, and the front stage, what they show everyone else, even their closest relationships are part of the front stage act. Informal control is more influential than formal or medical control because it begins as soon as we are born till the day we die. It dictates everything we do and how we act in front of other people as well as on our