Deviance

Deviance

Deviance
Deviance can be seen everywhere in today’s world. Deviance is behavior that violates the standards of conduct or expectation of a group or society. In other words, Deviance is any behavior that does not conform to the prevailing norms of a society. It is recognized violation of culture norms. It is measured by societies reactions, life style, only behavior that is defined unacceptable in a culture is deviant. Deviance is label used to maintain the power, control, and position of powerful individual or group. There are many different ways in which deviance can be defined. It involves the violation of group norms, which may or may not be formalized into law. It is comprehensive concept that includes not only criminal behavior but also many actions that are not subject to prosecution. Also, deviance varies according to culture norms, and that is why what is deviant in one culture may be celebrated in another.
Most of us are deviant, because just about everyone has done something that someone else disapproves of. Sociologists refer to behavior that is regarded as wrong doing that generates negative reactions in persons who witness or heard about it, as deviant behavior. Everyone who is violating the norms can not be a deviant, in fact the person who is caught or seem violating any norm is a deviant. Then that person is labeled as deviant. This is what the saints and the roughnecks reading is all about: their deviant behavior. Both the saints and the roughnecks were doing everything about the same that is the violating of norms in about same quantity, but the saints were never labeled as deviant as the roughnecks were permanently labeled as deviant by the society, or their community. The reason behind all this was the visibility of the violations. The saints would go out of their town and commonly where no one from their school or any community member can watch them doing whatever the roughnecks were doing in front of their community, in the same town...

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