Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Deviance
- Systems
- Boundary
Maintaining
- Each territory
has its own way
of doing things.
- Deviant
- Someone who
does something
out of the norm
of the group.
- 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
- 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
- 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)
- 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)
- 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
- Theories of Deviance
- Social Conflict Theory
- The organization and change of
society can be explained by conflicts
compared to other social relations
- Positive Deviance
- Objectivist view
- attitudes, behaviors, or
condition that over
conform to norms
- Subjectivist view
- any attitude, behavior, or
condition that is positively
evaluated