Meaning Of Deviant Behavior

As a little kid, your parents teach you or at least attempt to teach you good manners. For example, do not throw things at people, do not hit people, and do not steal. But have you ever wondered what made people think that certain things are not considered good matters? Well nowadays, the proper educated way of calling bad behavior or actions are known as deviant behavior. But how could you get an exact definition of a bad action since every person has a different perspective. Well by definition, deviant behavior is anything that as a society does not see as a norm. (Thio & Taylor, 2013) So majority rules. Now that we got that out of the way, how do people react to deviant behavior? Is there a way you are supposed to react? Many people react differently depending to the situation. Fabian: I did a study on how would people react if I would not let them enjoy a movie that they paid for in the theaters. For this I needed the help of …show more content…
I got up and told the crowd that all of this was an experiment. Fabian and his friends then came inside and apologized to all the people for what happened and that we were not going to leave them unhappy. Fabian knew a worker, Victoria, at the theater and asked if she could replay the movie. To make them happier Fabian promised them that they would not bother them in the movie and to prove it we left the theater. All in all, deviant behavior is what people do not see as the norm. For our experiment we showed that being disruptive in a movie theater is out of the norm. There is no telling how people will react to your deviancy. For our experience, we believe that the labeling theory was used. (Thio & Taylor, 2013) For Fabian’s case, both of the couples that were irritated could have just been thinking that the reason we were acting like that is because we are youngsters. For Reyna’s incident, people would see Reyna as helpless and Marco as a