non deviant crimes-white collar, minor traffic
offenses, civil disobedience-don't violate norms
or bring moral censure
ABC's of deviance
People can be labeled deviant for
alternative sets of attitudes or
belief system (religion, atheism, extreme political views)
behavioral deviance due to outward actions, can
be intentional or inadvertent, achieved deviant
status (kinky sex behavior, smoking pot,
committing murder, violating dress or speech
conventions)
Annotations:
Achieved deviant status earned by what a person has done
condition (extreme poverty, ultra rich, racial
status/only person of different race,
congenital physical disability, height, weight) can
be ascribed or achieved
Annotations:
Ascribed deviant status - when has been done to become deviant or nothing they can do to undo deviant status
3 categories of S's
sin
during middle ages and earlier
times when religious paradigms
prevailed
Nonnormative ABC's considered satanic and cured
using exorcisms, afflicted considered contagious &
condemned
religious leaders were official
morality leaders, made judgments,
issued sanctions
sickness
Annotations:
Conrad & Snyder (1980)
the process of medicalization begins
when a behavior or condition defined as
deviant is prospected to gain rewards