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Deviance is defined as actions or characteristics that violate societal norms, leading to potential censure or punishment. The document outlines various explanatory theories, including Objectivist Perspective, Strain Theory, Labelling Theory, and Conflict Theory, which seek to explain the occurrence of deviance. Additionally, it discusses interpretivist approaches that highlight the variability of deviance definitions across different social contexts, spaces, and times.

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Deviance (1)

Deviance is defined as actions or characteristics that violate societal norms, leading to potential censure or punishment. The document outlines various explanatory theories, including Objectivist Perspective, Strain Theory, Labelling Theory, and Conflict Theory, which seek to explain the occurrence of deviance. Additionally, it discusses interpretivist approaches that highlight the variability of deviance definitions across different social contexts, spaces, and times.

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Deviance

Outline
1.Definitions of
Deviance
2.Explanatory Theories
3.Interpretivist
Theories
1. Definition
of Deviance
Deviance
Any action, belief, or human
characteristic that is considered
to be a violation of group norms
by a large number of members of
a society or a social group and
for which the violator is likely to
be censured or punished.
2.
Explanatory
Theories
Explanatory
Theories
Seek to explain
why deviance does
or does not occur.
A. Objectivist
Perspective
Violation of PRE-
EXISTING and
CONCRETE
societal NORMS.
A. Objectivist
Perspective
Violation of PRE-
EXISTING and
CONCRETE
societal NORMS.
Positivism
Society operates
according to
general laws just
like the physical
world.
Strain Theory
CRIME is the result of a
SOCIETAL DYSFUNCITON
in which the MEANS to
achieve the “American
Dream”, that being
LEGITIMATE HARD WORK,
Innovation
People will engage in
ILLEGAL ACTIVIES as an
ILLEGITIMATE MEANS to
achieve the LEGITIMATE
END of the AMERICAN
DREAM.
Labelling
Theory
When people become DEFINED
as someone who is DEVIANT,
they then take that definition
and internalize it, which
makes it more likely that they
will continue to commit
DEVIANT acts.
Status Degradation Ceremony

An INSTITUTIONAL ritual
in which an individual who
has been LABELLED as
DEVIANT has their STATUS
publicly DEGRADED.
Conflict
Theory
CRIME is the
consequence of CLASS
CONFLICT between the
BOURGEOISIE and the
PROLETARIAT.
Social Constructionism
Language is FLEXIBLE! We
can create new words, or
different MEANINGS of
WORDS, which can change
our UNDERSTANDING of
our WORLD.
3.
Interpretivis
t
Approaches
Deviance/Normality and Social
Context
• 1. Definitions of deviance and normality can vary by
SEGMENTS OF SOCIETY.

• 2. Definitions of deviance and normality can vary across


SPACE.

• 3. Definitions of deviance and normality can vary over


TIME.
Another
Definition of
Deviance?
What is
Deviance?
BEHAVIOURS that individuals or
groups in society take OFFENCE
to and REACT NEGATIVELY to.

ATTRIBUTES that individuals or


groups in society take OFFENCE
to and REACT NEGATIVELY to.

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