Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Defining Deviance
- we refer to violtions of social norms
- norms are behavioral codes or prescriptions that guide people into actions and
self-presentations conforming to social acceptability
- what are three types of norms
- folkways, mores and laws
- ABC'S of deviance
- attitudes, behaviors, conditions
- deviants were considered anti-social misfits either through their failure to
live up to societal standards or through their intentional defiance of norms
- interactionist perspective
- defines deviance as the infraction f some
agreed-upon rule
- social groups create deviance by making the rules whose infraction
constitues deviance