1 / 13

DEVIANCE AND CONTROL

DEVIANCE AND CONTROL. CHAPTER 8. WHAT IS DEVIANCE?. Any act that violates a social norm Criminal Deviance : homicide, robbery, & rape (involve violating criminal law) Noncriminal Deviance : homophobia, using pornography, mental disorder, & corporate crimes. EXAMPLES OF VARIATIONS.

dunne
Download Presentation

DEVIANCE AND CONTROL

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. DEVIANCE AND CONTROL CHAPTER 8

  2. WHAT IS DEVIANCE? Any act that violates a social norm Criminal Deviance: homicide, robbery, & rape (involve violating criminal law) Noncriminal Deviance: homophobia, using pornography, mental disorder, & corporate crimes

  3. EXAMPLES OF VARIATIONS

  4. MENTAL PROBLEMS & DEVIANCE 20% of US adults suffer from problems serious enough to need psychiatric help; 12% of adolescents suffer Types of noncriminal deviance: Psychosis: loss of touch with reality Neurosis: persistent fear, anxiety, or worry about trivial matters

  5. HOMOPHOBIA Noncriminal deviance: prejudice & discrimination against gays & lesbians (aka “heterosexism”) #1 excuse: says it’s wrong in the Bible & those people are to be put to death (Leviticus 20:13) #2 excuse: same-sex marriages “cannot produce babies,” which is a “deviant” act to them

  6. DEVIANCE IS HELPFUL AND HARMFUL Emile Durkheim: “ deviance is an integral part of all healthy societies” He came up with anomie = social condition in which norms are absent, weak, or in conflict (aka “normlessness”)

  7. DEVIANCE IS HELPFUL AND HARMFUL • Robert Merton agrees w/Durkheim • anomie may occur when there’s an inconsistency between goals & the socially approved ways of achieving them • Problem: too much emphasis on success of the goal & not enough means for achieving it  creates a strain on people (especially lower classes)

  8. 3 PERSPECTIVES OF DEVIANCE • Both functionalists and conflict theorists view deviance as a product of society • Symbolic Interactionists say it is learned through interactions w/other people • People learn how to perform & define these acts • Ex: stealing if you’re hungry/poor = pro-deviant definition; wrong to steal = anti-deviant definition

  9. LEARNING THROUGH DEVIATION If kids pick up on enough pro-deviant definitions, then they will likely be deviant This is called differential association = process of acquiring a deviant behavior through interaction w/others

  10. LABELING THEORY Looks at societal reactions to rule violation & impact of this reaction Society looks at a rule-breaking act & labels it as deviant  can forever label a person

  11. DIFFERENT LABELS Before being forever labeled, people go through stages” 1. primary deviance = 1st time violations (kids break windows, skip school, etc) 2. leads to possible secondary deviance = if adults see these “pranks” as serious, they label the kid…leads to continued violations b/c it’s almost expected of them

  12. WE HAVE CONTROL Almost everyone deviates at a point in their life from social norms  considered deviant acts Therefore control by others to limit deviance & maintain order is known as social control (people are pressured to conform to social norms)

  13. TYPES OF SOCIAL CONTROL INFORMAL FORMAL • Relatives, neighbors, peers, strangers • Enforce control through frowning, gossip, ridicule, etc. • Police, judges, prison guards, educational institutions, welfare, media, & medicine • Controlled through our criminal justice system

More Related