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