Violates Significant Social Norms

A person can be deviant by their behavior, beliefs, or condition that violates significant social norms in the society or group in which it occurs. Most times a person doesn’t have to be actively deviant to be labelled as deviant. Deviant behaviors can vary from criminal to non-criminal acts. A deviant behavior criminal act can consist of robbing banks or committing a murder, whereas, a non-criminal act can consist picking you’re nose in public or enjoying watching others in pain. There are three types of norms that can be violated in degree of seriousness, ranging from mild transgressions of folks, to more serious infringement of mores, to quite serious violation of the law, which violates the criminal law that society labels as taboos. Violations of Folkways can consist of skipping class or pretending that you were sick so that you would have more time to complete homework assignments or studying for an exam. …show more content…
Folkways are considered expectations of what we have on others. When taking mores into consideration, its rules that uphold our morals/values. Mores violations can range from falsifying a college application or cheating on an examination which is viewed as more serious infractions and results in punishable by stronger sanctions, such as academic probation or explosion. When violating mores you’re sometimes committing a crime. (Kendall, D., Sociology in Our Times (10th Ed.) Whereas, taboo you’re always committing a crime or considered unfit to live in that society. For example, in some Muslim cultures, eating pork is taboo because the pig is considered unclean. At the most extreme, incest and cannibalism are taboo in most