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Social Deviance

Deviance is defined as any action or behavior that violates social norms or rules. It can include criminal acts but also rejecting informal cultural expectations. What is considered deviant differs across cultures and time periods. Deviance is relative to the context, such as killing being acceptable during war but not otherwise. Societies establish codes of conduct and punish those who engage in behaviors seen as deviant. Deviance can be formal or informal, positive or negative, and results from a variety of economic, social, and structural factors.

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Social Deviance

Deviance is defined as any action or behavior that violates social norms or rules. It can include criminal acts but also rejecting informal cultural expectations. What is considered deviant differs across cultures and time periods. Deviance is relative to the context, such as killing being acceptable during war but not otherwise. Societies establish codes of conduct and punish those who engage in behaviors seen as deviant. Deviance can be formal or informal, positive or negative, and results from a variety of economic, social, and structural factors.

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Social Deviance

Deviancy is defined as “violation of social norms”. In sociology, deviance describes


an action or behaviour that violates social norms, including a formally rules (e.g.,
crime), as well as informal violations of social norms (e.g., rejecting folkways and
mores).

Social norms differ from culture to culture. For example, a deviant act can be
committed in one society but may be normal for another society.

Deviance is relative to the place where it was committed or to the time the act took
place. Killing another human is generally considered wrong for example, except
when governments permit it during warfare or for self defense.

Deviance is defined as the act of doing something that does not comply with the
norms and the rules of the society, this behaviour goes against the general ways of
behaving and is often subject to some kind of punishment or penalty that the one
engaging in deviant behaviour has to pay. Often institutions set up strict codes that
must be followed and maintained, any kind of behaviour that will not obey this code
will be considered as deviant behaviour. E.g. in a society where one is expected to
earn money by working hard, the act of stealing becomes a deviant behaviour, this
behaviour is punished by the law. In every kind of society, even in primitive societies,
there is always a body of heads which will determine what deviant behaviour is and
what consequence will the indulgence in such behaviour entail. Emile Durkheim has
viewed deviance as a source of innovation and change in society. Cohen” We define
deviant behaviour as behaviour which violate institutionalised expectations which
are shared and recognised as legitimate in a social system.”

Features of Social Deviance


1. Deviance can be defined
2. Every deviant behaviour is not wrong
3. Dynamic
4. Individual and social
5. Related with culture
6. Direct and indirect- freedom fighter and mass
7. May be progressive
8. Deviation is relative not absolute
9. Deviance is also viewed as a ‘stigma construct’

Factors of Social Deviance


1. Economic Factor
2. Educational factor
3. Family
4. Religion
5. Media
6. Internet
7. Lack of social control
8. Lack of socialisation
9. Lack of rationalisation
10. Improper enforcement of Law
11. Complex social structure
12. Weak sanctions

Types
1. Formal Deviance
2. Informal Deviance
3. Negative Deviance
4. Positive Deviance
5. Abnormal Deviance
Conformity
6. Innovation
7. Ritualism
8. Retreatism
9. Rebellion

https://opentextbc.ca/introductiontosociology/chapter/chapter7-deviance-crime-
and-social-control/

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5. Media 6. Internet 7. Lack of social control 8. Lack of socialisation 9. Lack of rationalisation 10.Improper enforcement of

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