Institute of New Khmer

Book: Global Studies III

Class lecture by: Mr. Prak San

Responsible by: Mr. Sreng kua

On Unit1

What is deviance?

Unit1

WHAT IS DEVIANCE?

Let thinking a moment! What is the first thing that comes to your mind

when you hear “deviance” or “deviants”?

How would you define deviants behavior?

Why is it important to study social deviance?

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Definition

Deviance or deviants is any behavior that violates cultural norms. Deviance is often divided into two types of deviant activities:

-The first, crime is the violation of formally enacted laws.

Examples of formal deviance would include: robbery, theft, rape, murder, and assault, just to name a few.

-Second is referred to as formal deviance:

The second type of deviant behavior refers to violations of informal social norms, norms that have not been codified into law, and is referred to as informal deviance.

Examples of informal deviance might include: picking one's nose, belching loudly (in some cultures), or standing too close to another unnecessarily (again, in some cultures).

Deviance is the violation of rules or norms

Here we are have any point that relate to deviance :

Crime is the violation of norms that are written in to law

Deviants is people who violate rules, as a result of which others react negatively to them

Stigma is blemishes that discredit a person’s claim to a normal identity

2. Gaining a Sociological Perspective of Deviance

3. The Relativity of Deviance Deviance is relative What people consider

deviant varies from culture to culture and from one group to another within the same society. As symbolic integrationists stress, it is not the act, but the reactions to the act, that make something deviant. -Henslin (2009) Sociology a down to earth approach.  but whether or not these differences exist before deviant activities is widely debated.

Social-Strain Typology

There are have five point is: Conformity involves the acceptance of the cultural goals

and means of attaining those goals (e.g., a banker) Innovation involves the acceptance of the goals of a

culture but the rejection of the traditional and/or legitimate means of attaining those goals (e.g., a member of the Mafia or street gang values wealth but employs alternative means of attaining her wealth)

Ritualism involves the rejection of cultural goals but the routinized acceptance of the means for achieving the goals (e.g., a disillusioned bureaucrat - like Milton in the movie Office Space, who goes to work everyday because it is what he does, but does not share the goal of the company of making lots of money)

Retreatism involves the rejection of both the cultural goals and the traditional means of achieving those goals (e.g., a homeless person who is homeless more by choice than by force or circumstance or a commune established separately from dominant social norms)

Rebellion is a special case wherein the individual rejects both the cultural goals and traditional means of achieving them but actively attempts to replace both elements of the society with different goals and means (e.g., a communist revolution and / or social movement activities)

Proposed a typology of deviant behavior. A typology is a classification scheme designed to facilitate understanding. In this case, Merton was proposing a typology of deviance based upon two criteria:

(1) a person's motivations or her adherence to cultural goals.

(2) a person's belief in how to attain her goals.

Conflict Theory

Deviance and criminal behavior can also be tied to power and resource imbalances in society. Individuals may engage in deviant or criminal behavior because they lack the physical resources necessary to survive, committing property crimes like thefts or selling drugs in order to procure such resources. The criminal justice system is also structured to reflect differences in power and property, as white collar crime illustrates.

Crimes include : 1. antitrust violations 2. computer, credit card, phone, telemarketing,

bankruptcy, healthcare, insurance, mail, and government fraud

3. tax evasion 4. insider trading 5. bribery and public corruption 6. counterfeiting 7. money laundering 8. embezzlement 9. economic espionage 10. trade secret theft

4. How Norm Make Social Life Possible

Regardless of which of these view is correct regarding the origin of group’s norms, or whose interests they represent, norms make social life possible by making behavior predictable.

Because we can count on most people most of the time to meet the expectations of other can social life as we know it exist.

Social order: a group’s usual and customary social arrangements, on which its members depend and on which they base their lives.

Answer

Why is it important to study social deviance?

Because with deviance in Sociology it is very important to focus on how what any given person considers to be deviant behavior is shaped by their culture, or "socially constructed", to use the official jargon. Thus any society is going to have its set of approved behaviors determined by its norms and values. This will differ from the behavior of other societies. Any person committing an act outside the "acceptable behavior" of their society is going to be labeled a deviant.

Reference

In the global book studies III on page 59- 63 www.wikipedle.org en.wikibooks.org www.enotes.com

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