Deviance

Deviance

1. Systems

   • Boundary Maintaining
     • Each territory has its own way of doing things.
   • Deviant
     • Someone who does something out of the norm of the group.

2. Integrated Typology of Deviance

   • 4 Categories
     • Negative Deviance
       • Nickname: Jeffrey Dahmer phenomenon Non-conformity is seen as negative and gets negative reactions
     • Rate Busting
       • Nickname: Geek phenomenon Over conformity seen as negative and is negatively evaluated
     • Deviance Admiration
       • Nickname: John Gotti Non- conformity seen as positive and gets positive reactions
     • Positive Deviance
       • Nickname: Mother Teresa phenomenon Over conformity seen as positive and is positively evaluated

3. Definitions of Deviance

   • Accepted approaches
     • Normative
       • Or objectivist approach focuses on the violation of norms
     • Reactivist
       • Or subjectivist approach focuses on evaluations of the audience and the dynamics of their reactions
   • Negative approaches
     • Absolutist
       • Approach focuses on a standard of behavior that is moral and good any deviation from that behavior is considered deviance

4. American Values

   • Achievement, individualism, equality, group loyalty, privacy, prudence, conventionality, responsibility, participation, honesty, peacefulness, and courtesy
     • Henslin added education, religiosity, romantic love, and monogomy
   • Gibbs defines norm as a belief shared by some members of a social unit (regularities of action)

5. Durkheim

   • 1982 he illuminated positive functions of deviance. Has a functional view of society
   • Believed that deviance has the consequence of promoting social stability
   • 2 Theories
     • 1st Theory: Deviant behavior keeps society stable by defining social boundaries
     • 2nd Theory: Deviance promotes integration by causing people who don't violate the norms to feel that they belng to the group that supports those norms. ( us against them)

6. Social Control

   • Conflict inequality
     • When a group is following norms and values that aren't in their best interest and they don't agree with them.
   • Social Controls
     • An organized way to teach and enforce conformity
   • Two forms
     • Informal social control
       • Relationships with significant others those people whose opinion is important to you
     • Formal social control
       • Legal sanctions enforced by institutions like the police or legislatures

7. Theories of Deviance

   • Social Conflict Theory
     • The organization and change of society can be explained by conflicts compared to other social relations

8. Positive Deviance

   • Objectivist view
     • attitudes, behaviors, or condition that over conform to norms
   • Subjectivist view
     • any attitude, behavior, or condition that is positively evaluated