Is it Deviance? In the following 10 slides, determine

if what you see constitutes Deviance.

You may base your decisions on behavior, beliefs, or the condition of the person.

Deviance?

Deviance?

Deviance?

Deviance?

Deviance?

Deviance?

Deviance?

Deviance?I’m single, I

have a career, and I’m happy with my life.

Deviance?

Deviance?

What is Deviance? Any behavior, belief, or condition

that violates significant social norms in the society or group in which it occurs

Interestingly – one who is considered “deviant” by one category of people may be seen as “conformist” in another group

Who Defines Deviance? Common Sense Thinking

– Inherent in certain kinds of behavior or people

Sociologists– Formal property of social situations and

structures– Deviance is relative- An act becomes

deviant when it is defined as such

Variations in Deviance Time to Time

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Place to Place– –

Group to Group– –

Degrees of Seriousness– –

“Deviance is not a property inherent in certain forms of

behavior; it is a property conferred upon these forms by the

audiences which directly or indirectly witness them. The

critical variable in the study of deviance, then, is the social

audience rather than the individual actor”.

- Kai T. Erikson (1964)