CONFORMITY

DEVIANCE
CONFORMITY
The act of
submitting oneself
to the norms and
conventions of
DEVIANCE
Opposite of
conformity
Deviants are those
who do not conform
with the norms and
FOUR FUNCTIONS OF
DEVIANCE
MACIONES
 A.Deviance(2010)
affirms cultural values and norms.
There can be no good without evil and no
justice without crime.
 B. Responding to deviance clarifies moral
boundaries . People draw a boundary between
right and wrong.
 C.Responding to deviance brings people
together . People typically react to serious
deviance with shared outrage.
 D. Deviance encourages social change .
Deviants people push a society’s moral
FORMS OF DEVIANCE
 A. Conformity – follow the process of pursuing a
person’s goal through traditional means like
education and hard work.
 B. Ritualism- is the type of deviance where the
person rejects a certain cultural goal like the
acquisition of money , but still continues to act
conventionally to project a level of dignity.
 C. Retreatism –is another type of deviance where
the individual is similar to being apathetic ,as
shown by alcoholics and drug addicts.
Acceptance of their current situation is evident by
not doing anything to changeor improve it.
D. Innovation – is the use of non-
traditional way or approach to reach a
socially acceptable goal like earning
money by stealing or through
investment scams.
E. Rebellion- is the type of deviance
where an individual rejects both the
cultural goal and the traditional way of
reaching it. Philippine culture the term
“pasaway” is more apt to describe this.