Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Defining Deviance
- Violation of norm or
expectation, Anything outside
of "normal"
- Violating Folkways
- Wearing improper clothing
- poor table manners
- multicolored hair
- Violating Mores
- Interracial marriage
- Drug addiction
- Obesity
- Unwed Mothers
- Breaking Laws
- Murder
- Assault
- Property Crimes (theft,
arson, vandalism)
- Generally
- Absolutist
Approach
(Emile
Durkheim)
- Violations of a society's laws
- Deviance is
thought to be
immoral, sinful
and unnatural
- If perceived as wrong
in past, should
presently and in the
future be wrong
- Global- violations
should be
considered
everywhere
- Statistical Approach
- Act is not considered deviant, if there is a
majority of people doing it
- Normative/Objectivist Approach
- Concentration is on the
violation of the norm
- Behaviors
Underconform or
Overconform
- Reactivist/Subjective
Approach
- Concentrates
on the
reaction of
the
community
- "Outsider "type label
applied to deviant behavior
or those in unfavorable
conditions
- Thief
- Dope Head
- Lunatic
- Trailer Trash
- Positive or negative reactions