Deviance has two types. The one is formal deviance that violation of laws like robbery, murder. And the other is informal deviance that violation of social norms like picking one’s nose. Deviance is provided differently for culture. Personal place is a good example. There are several theories of deviance. Robert K. Merton suggests five types of deviance according to acceptance or rejection of cultural goals and institutionalised means. Conflict theory explains white-collar crimes like tax evasion, counterfeiting, bribery that reflects power imbalances. It usually committed by high social classes. More power they have, more reward can be owned. Labeling theory means when a unfavorable label is applied to someone, the person does behavior like that.
Social control is a means that bring people in normal social group. It can be divided two types: formal/informal social control. Formal social control means resocialize individuals like prisons and mental hospital. Motivations about this includes retribution, deterrence, rehabilitation, societal protection. On the other hand, informal social control is reinforcing cultural norms. In current research, deviance occurs at various realm and changable. First, in the case of video game, it was a example of deviance by Karen. Because she thinks violent video game make children violent. But it has nothing to do. Tattoos are prescribed as representative deviance act. But more people do it and less recognize it is deviance.
Deviance is so interesting topic to me. It change every moment everywhere. And it is mentioned in many situation like news, songs, ect. It means simple action as well as very serious matter. When highschool class, doing manicuring can be a example. So I think very small deviances are so refresh and attractive to us.
I read wikibook about deviance. And I knew fading away about it. So I wonder newly created deviance.
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