Defining Deviance

Defining Deviance

1. Assessed by 3 Categories of S's

   • Sick
   • Sin
   • Selected

2. ABC's of Deviance

   • Attitudes
   • Behaviors
   • Conditions
   • Ex: Socioeconomic Status & Belief Systems

3. 3 Types of Norms

   • Mores
   • Laws
   • Folkways
   • Norm Violations assoc w/crime, sin, & poor taste
   • US Middle Class Norms
     • Prudence
     • Privacy
     • Loyalty
     • Honesty
     • Courtesy
     • Responsibility
     • Moderation

4. Institutions

   • Breed/Enhance Deviance
   • Promote Deviance for social control & economics
   • Self-Fulfilling Prophesy

5. 4 Definitions of Deviance

   • Statistical
   • Reactivist/Subjectivist
   • Normative/Objectivist
   • Absolutist

6. Deviance Typology

   • Rate Busting
   • Deviance Admiration
   • Positive Deviance
   • Negative Deviance

7. Relativism: Labeling Theory

   • Deviant is labeled
   • Deviant behavior is behavior people label with
   • Master/Auxiliary vs Subordinate Status

8. Affirms moral order

   • Defining Deviancy Down vs Up

9. Cultural Relativism

   • Experts vs Common Sense
   • Medicalization of Deviance

10. Social vs Sacred Order

    • Replace concept of sin w/sickness
    • 9/11 Revelation

11. Social Power: Conflict Theory

    • Social Reality of Crime Theory
      • 1. Official Definition of Crime
      • 2. Formulating Definitions of Crime
      • 3. Applying Definitions of Crime
      • 4. Behavior Patterns Develop vs Definitions of Crime
      • 5.Constructing an Ideology of Crime
      • 6. Constructing the Social Reality of Crime