Theory & Deviance: Crash Course Sociology #19

Last week we introduced deviance as a concept, but today we’re going return to our major paradigms in sociology and how each approaches deviance. We’ll explore how structural functionalism sees deviance fulfilling a function in society; how deviance is constructed, according to symbolic interactionism; and finally, how conflict theory views deviance as tied to power and inequality.

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[JulieDiana]

I have always gone against social norms and I'm not really sure why. I never went to college, I have a self employed job cleaning houses, female living by myself, I don't ever want kids. idk why I am like this I just never cared about what others want for me but doing what makes me happy

[DavidDylanFisher]

Given that Rosa Parks' refusal to give up her seat was not a spontaneous act of defiance, but something planned and carried out in the context of her work within the civil rights community, it may not be the best example of deviance: she may have deviated from the laws of the Jim Crow South, but she was upholding the ideals of her community/subculture, her fellow civil rights' activists. So she was deviant in a sort of the same way Neil Armstrong was deviant.

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[unknownnumber]

Theories
1 Dk
Deviance 4 function
Define culture norm, boundary of behavior, bring society together, encourage social change ( rossa park)

Merton strain theory
Means to achieve culturally defined goals
Conformity
Deviance 1 invotion goal same means different
2 ritualism
3 retreatism drop both.
4 rebellion both New

Symbolic theory
Labeling theory
Stigma
Moral failure
Retrospective and prospective labeling

2 differential association
3 control theory
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Conflict theory
Norm reflect interest of powerful those of rebel labelled deviant.
Norms have inherent have political dominations. Laws just or not.

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[alutsenko]

There is an interesting theory, called 'a theory of delinquent cultures' (Sellin, Miller, Sutherland). It says that deviance is mainly caused by being influenced by a group that has deviant norms.

Also it would be nice to notice Durkheim's explanation of deviance as a result of anomie.

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What about conformity within deviant subcultures? Like the South Park episode with the Goth kids all conforming to each other to keep from being called "conformists."

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[Meganopteryx]

I think deviance is the societal equivalent of biological mutations. They allow societies to change and respond to different stimuli. Sometimes they can be harmful though.

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