Deviance

The School to Prison Pipeline is a systemic process usually put into racial and class contexts due to how it disproportionately affects poor students of color. Poor students of color are systematically marginalized and dehumanized, often finding themselves pushed towards deviancy and a criminal lifestyle within the school system. However, the policies and practices that lead to such a pipeline are not exclusive to just poor students of color, but marginalized groups in general. Shannon D. Snapp…

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…

Some social movements and socio-political ideologies have embodied resistance by challenging hegemonic socio-cultural norms and refusing to accept the concept of normativity. Embodied resistance can take the form of embracing “body-mind” (Clare, xvi) difference, recognizing that the individual body is not independent from the social body, and not complying with norms that perpetuate and contribute to systemic oppression. This essay will explore how resistance is embodied in social movements and…

The Influence of an Outsider in Society in Sula and Mama Day In every society, there are certain rules about how one should act, think, and say in any given situation that are perpetuated and must be upheld. If one strays from those rules, those ways of being, they are considered outsiders. The idea that outsiders do not follow the conventional rules of social behavior that are set in place by a society are prominent in Toni Morrison’s Sula and Gloria Naylor’s Mama Day. Morrison looks at an…

Society’s influence on crime can be examined from a number of perspectives. For one, the tendency of individuals to leave themselves open to crime (such as by leaving keys in a car, or windows open with a purse visibly inside) opens the possibility of crime to offenders who may not otherwise go out of their way to commit such crimes. The opportunity presented to them sparks interest, and thus the crime that could have easily been prevented is committed. Second, the societal pressures to meet…

Koben Barrientos PSY-201-20 November 10, 2017 Prejudice and Discrimination Prejudice is an unjustified attitude towards someone based of their social group. (McLeod, 2008). In society different social groups are commonly formed and social identity theory explains why this occurs. The two groups in which all members can be associated with are the in-groups (“us”) out-groups (“them”). The in-group and out-group terms relate to how people identify with groups and vice versa. Most of the times being…

Numerous theorists have explained the causes of crime, the characteristics of a criminal, and the possible policy implementations. The essay will examine the comparison of Travis Hirschi’s theory of social control compared to classical criminology, Durkheim's theory, and Merton’s theory. Social control theory examines delinquency, and how “Delinquent acts result when an individual’s bond to society is weak or broken” (Hirschi, 2014, p. 231). He argues that delinquency is not subjected to one…

The authors put a good argument up when clarifying the reasoning behind it. For example, rebellion, retreatism, and innovation explain each goal differently. While I can understand, these categories could be used to base a races goals I also don't believe that makes a person who they are. Anyone who has been brought up in an unstable household has the same possibilities as one who had a stable home. As for this being the best explanation for racial differences in offending I agree with this…

I believe the constructionist perspective is better suited to address the subject of deviant behavior in a plurality of cultures that is characterized by contemporary Society. The three constructionist perspective approaches are more suitable to deal with deviant behavior. The first approach is relativism, “views that deviant behavior by itself does not have any intrinsic characteristics and is a socially constructed idea defined by society”. The relativist view does not judge everyone based on…

1. The two concepts I have chosen for this assignment are the “Rich Male, Professional” and the “Deviant male with Body modification”, the Rich male professional is defined as an individual who has attained the financial status by going to college and attaining a very lucrative job by way of a college education, entrepreneurial ship or nepotism. His status affords him the luxuries in life of owning nice clothes, house and car. The male deviant with body modifications is defined as someone who…