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Deviance
and Social Control
What is Deviance?
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Deviance Terminology
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What words come to mind when you see this picture?
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What about when you see this picture?
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Same Action: Picking “boogers”.
Is one more acceptable than the other?
Is one more deviant than the other?
Why is that?
What is Deviance?
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Examples of Relative Definitions of Deviance: Using Mental Health Examples
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Class Context
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Stealing Small Amounts Of Food When In Desperate Need Is Not A Crime, Rules Italy’s Highest Court
(May 2016)
“A small theft because of hunger is in no way comparable to an act of delinquency, because the need to feed justifies the fact.”
Class Context
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What do people call someone who is sexually promiscuous?
If they are a Woman?
If they are a Man?
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Brainstorm a list of several terms for both Women and Men.
Once you’ve done that, click to the next slide and see what other students have suggested.
What do people call someone who is sexually promiscuous?
If they are a Woman?
If they are a Man?
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Note- These terms were contributed by previous Sociology classes!
The majority of the labels for women are NEGATIVE.
Sexual Context
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Professional vs. Domestic Context
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Cultural Context
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Time Context
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Witchcraft can also be viewed in a Cultural Context (Children accused of witchcraft in Zambia)
Norms Make Social Life Possible
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Sanctions
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Shaming and Degradation Ceremonies
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Shaming and Degradation Ceremonies
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Explanations of Deviance
Sociobiology- Look for Answers Inside Individuals
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Heredity
“Jukes & the Kallikaks”
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The great-great-grandfather of Deborah was Martin Kallikak. We had also traced the good family back to an ancestor belonging to an older generation than this Martin Kallikak, but bearing the same name. Many months later, a granddaughter of Martin revealed in a burst of confidence the situation. When Martin Sr., of the good family, was a boy of fifteen, his father died, leaving him without parental care or oversight. Just before attaining his majority, the young man joined one of the numerous military companies that were formed to protect the country at the beginning of the Revolution. At one of the taverns frequented by the militia he met a feeble-minded girl by whom he became the father of a feeble-minded son. This child was given, by its mother, the name of the father in full, and thus has been handed down to posterity the father’s name and the mother’s mental capacity. This illegitimate boy was Martin Kallikak Jr., the great-great-grandfather of our Deborah, and from him have come four hundred and eighty descendants. One hundred and forty-three of these, we have conclusive proof, were or are feeble-minded, while only forty-six have been found normal. The rest are unknown or doubtful
(Goddard, 1912, p. 18).
Heredity
This is a typical illustration of the mentality of a high-grade feeble-minded person, the moron, the delinquent, the kind of girl or woman that fills our reformatories. They are wayward, they get into all sorts of trouble and difficulties, sexually and otherwise (p. 12)
It is also the history of the same type of girl in the public school. Rather good-looking, bright in appearance, with many attractive ways, the teacher clings to the hope, indeed insists, that such a girl will come out all right. Our work with Deborah convinces us that such hopes are delusions (p. 12–13)
Here is a child who has been most carefully guarded. She has been persistently trained since she was eight years old, and yet nothing has been accomplished in the direction of higher intelligence or general education. To-day if this young woman were to leave the Institution, she would at once become a prey to the designs of evil men or evil women and would lead a life that would be vicious, immoral, and criminal (p. 13).
Repercussions:
In 1927, The Callicac Family [sic] was entered into the record as evidence in Buck v. Bell, the case that resulted in the Supreme Court decision establishing that involuntary sterilization of “mentally defective” people was constitutional.
The Kallikak Family was reprinted in German in 1933, the same year Nazi Germany passed the “Law for Prevention of Offspring with Hereditary Defects Act.” That Act was based on the model sterilization law drawn up by American eugenicist Harry H. Laughlin, a star witness in Buck v Bell, and legalized involuntary sterilization of Germans with disabilities.
From 1934 to 1939, Hitler’s Nazi regime involuntarily sterilized somewhere near 150,000 Germans with disabilities, and beginning in the winter of 1939, implemented a program of extermination that, by its end 20 months later, had resulted in the murder of 80,000 disabled Germans.
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Body Type
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Explanations of Deviance
Psychology
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Explanations of Deviance
Sociology
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Symbolic Interactionist Perspective�Differential Association Theory
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Symbolic Interactionist Perspective �Control Theory
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Symbolic Interactionist Perspective�Control Theory
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Symbolic Interactionist Perspective�Labeling Theory
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Symbolic Interactionist Perspective�Rejecting Labels
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Symbolic Interactionist Perspective�Labeling Theory
Most people resist being labeled deviant, but some revel in a deviant identity
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Functionalist Perspective�Can Deviance Be Functional?
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Functionalist Perspective�Strain Theory
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Functionalist Perspective�Four Responses to Anomie
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Functionalist Perspective�Four Responses to Anomie
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Functionalist Perspective�Four Responses to Anomie
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Functionalist Perspective�Four Responses to Anomie
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Functionalist Perspective�Illegitimate Opportunity Structures
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The Conflict Perspective
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Reaction to Deviance
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Reaction to Deviance
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