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Deviance. In today's world deviance is everywhere.Where did it come from ? ...
Deviance violates some groups assumptions about reality. ...
deviance. ... He emphasizes that this definition clarifies deviance more than others.
He continues with clarification of deviance by helping of main three points. ...
Deviance Is Socially Defined. ... Deviance is defined in many different ways.
It is depended on the norms of the society, and region. ...
Functionalist Prospective on Deviance. The functional ... norms. If there were no
deviance there would not be ?normal' behavior. Functionalism ...
Deviance In Society. What ... society. Deviance is defined in many different ways.
It is depended on the norms of the society, and region. ...
Submitted by whitneyrainer on April 30, 2005
Category: Psychology
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"In the U.S. you have to be a deviant or exist in extreme boredom...
Make no mistake; all intellectuals are deviants in the U.S."
-- William Seward Burroughs (b. 1914), American writer, naturalist
A person would be considered to be acting deviantly in society if they are violating what the significant social norm in that particular culture is. What causes humans to act certain ways is a disputed topic among researchers for some time now. There are three types of researchers that have tried to answer this question. There is the psychological answer, biological answer, and the sociological answer. With all of the studies that have been performed, no one group has come up with an exact reason to why people behave deviantly. Although, sociologists' theories have not been disproved as often as the psychologists' and biologists' theories because their experiments are too hard to define and no one definition for deviance is agreed upon by all experimenters (Pfuhl, 40).
My own curiosity to find out what the influences are behind deviant behavior is the purpose for this paper. I wanted to find out more information to see if biological factors are also behind this kind of behavior. The most knowledge acquired for why people act deviantly is from the sociological perspective. There is need for more research, if possible, in the psychological and biological perspectives, but there is a lot more known in the sociological viewpoint. The reality that the definition of deviant behavior is considered different by everyone makes it complicated and unknown if a truly accurate answer can ever be found (Pfuhl 18). This is why this topic is important to the study of sociology. Sociologists have more information, and therefore may be closer to finding the cause. For this reason, my main focus in this paper is at the sociological stand point of deviance with some explanations from psychologists and biologists.
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