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What comes to mind when you hear deviance or deviants?
How would you define deviant behavior?
Yanomami culture Eat Grubs, frogs and
other insects Use hallucinogenic
drugs Practice
endocannibalism Naked in public
Do we look at it as deviance?
We see the Yanomami as being deviant based on our own norms
Stigma is characteristics that discredit people
We see stigmas attached to a variety of people People who are blind People who are deaf People with mental handicaps People with different types of disease (AIDS)
Deviance- Any violation of rules or norms
Crime- the violation of norms written into law
Social Control- A groups formal and informal means of enforcing its norms
Stigma- blemishes that discredit a person’s claim to a normal identity
Social Order- a groups usual and customary social arrangements, on which its members depend and on which they base their lives
Violation of rules that have been written into law Murder Rape
In some countries profiteering is a crime punishable by death
In the U.S. its accepted In China, people would
be hanged in public
Positive Sanctions are used to reward people for conforming to norms. Smiles Awards
Negative Sanctions are used to give disapproval for breaking a norm. Frown Imprisonment
Shaming is used in small communities and to keep children in line. As the society gets larger, shaming is not as
effective Degradation Ceremony is an attempt to
remake the self by stripping away an individual’s self identity. Court Martial