Deviance

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…

Pacing walking over to my locker, my music was blasting. Happily, I recall listening to one of my favorite songs, and I found myself strutting throughout the hallway. Quickly stopping I started laughing at myself, as I slowed my walking down to a slower pace. Finally, I had concluded to smile, yet I was elated inside. The surface of my face was emotionless, as my eyes drifted past my locker outside through the back door. Approaching I could hear a select few talking amongst themselves aloud,…

Deviance commonly comes in the form of people who defy societal norms. Bikers, nudists, and even cultists who belong to what we view as a bizarre religion. Sometimes, however, people can take an accepted norm too far and it becomes its own form of deviance. In this instance, the focus will be on positive deviance in the form of the fanatically devout Christian. You’ve probably dealt with a relative who tries to convert anyone who bumps into them and proselytizes in every sentence. These aren’t…

Laxmi Sitaula Professor Sarah Sullivan Gomez Introduction to Sociology November 10, 2017 Deviance paper There was a huge bomb blast in Mumbai, India. It was the biggest bomb blast in the history of India where more than 300 people died and 1400 were injured. The India is always known as a Hindu’ country. There are more Hindu people than other people. There was a conflict between Hindu and Muslim at that time. It happened on March 12, 1993, at 1:30 pm. There were 13 blasts inside Mumbai…

Sociology of Deviance The Division of the Mind, Soul & Body We do not live in a world of our own creation. We live in a world that is made up. In the words of James Baldwin an African American Historian, “People invent categories in order to feel safe.” (Dialogue 88-9) In other words people create associations to loosely say ‘I am not that’ or ‘I am this’, to feel a part of something and have a classification for social order. This notion applies to the body as well. People cannot simply…

the two types of workplace deviance, organizational and interpersonal, and the individual facets of job satisfaction. These two variables can interact and produce harmful effects for various aspects of an organization such as productivity and cohesiveness. Researching these variables can help organizations solve the many problems they may have with satisfaction and deviance. It is hypothesized that co-worker satisfaction will negatively correlate with interpersonal deviance and that contingent…

Explanations of crime have been explained by an individual’s external force and outside environment that individuals have no power over. However, the emergence of control theory challenged these prior theories that dominated criminology by emphasizing the individual and his or her social controls. There are several varieties of control theory, such as Sykes and Matza’s Techniques of Neutralization, Walter Reckless’ Containment Theory, Travis Hirschi’s Social Bond Theory, and Gottfredson and…

A person’s natural identity can be lost for the purpose of social progress since the overall social status of an individual can cause them to neglect their persevering characteristics. Throughout the story Brave New World by Aldous Huxley and the film Gattaca it is evident that John the Savage and Vincent Freeman are best representations as to how their own personal identity was lost through social progress. Throughout both of these stories, the reader is introduced to two different aspects of…

Social Control Theory was developed by Travis Hirschi in 1969. The Social Control Theory is a theory that indicates that people will commit crimes when their social bonds are weakened. According to the textbook Hirschi believes that social bonds are our connection to society and crimes. Social bond is made up of four elements 1. Attachment, 2. Commitment, 3. Involvement and 4. Belief. Attachment is when you feel sensitive and have feelings for others. Commitment is when you care about what other…

SOCIETAL ARCHETYPES Are there specific patterns of QLC in different societies? Some circumstances have been shown to be society specific. Take the concept of homophobia- while it is ritually practiced in certain parts of the world, in others- it is considered a criminal offence. And so, isn’t it important to know, if quarter life crisis is as prevalent in Kenya as it is in the United States? Are there significant geographic differences in its occurrence? Are individuals in certain parts of…