Transcript Deviance - WWSociology

Reminders
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Tomorrow --- Test
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Friday, November 4th
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American Teen worksheet
Wiki Assignment 4
All late work from Unit 3
End of the 1st quarter
Room Change: Wednesday, November 9 ---- 318
Deviant Acts?
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Living as a hermit
Alcoholism
Downloading porn off the Internet
Stealing from a store
Smoking pot in the privacy of your own home.
Cross dressing
Talking during lecture.
Having sex at age 15.
Tattoos and piercings
Being rude to friends
Buying cigarettes at age 14
The attitude that women belong in the home
The attitude that older drivers do not belong on the streets
Deviance
Behavior that departs from
the norm
Deviance Theory - Functionalism
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Anomie
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Deviance is the result of a breakdown in the norms of
society (lack of consensus).
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Example: College Underage Drinking
Deviance Theory - Functionalism
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ANOMIE
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Normlessness
(confusion) – people are
unaware of the norms
that exist.
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Example: Foreign
Travel
Deviance Theory - Conflict
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CONFLICT THEORY
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Terms of social
inequality and power
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ie: Death Penalty
 Race
 Social Class
Deviance Theory –
Symbolic Interaction
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LABELING THEORY
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A group in power labels
the act to be deviant
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ie: Teen Pregnancy,
Piercing/Tattoos,
Polygamy,
homosexuality
Deviance Theory –
Symbolic Interaction
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DIFFERENTIAL
ASSOCIATION
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Deviance by association
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ie: Gangs, Mafia
Study of Deviance
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Deviance Theory
Alcohol & Drug Studies
Criminology
Sexuality Research
Racism
Sexism
Ageism