Essays on Deviants

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The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) community has experienced episodes of discrimination and outright unfair treatment. This has been promoted by the fact that there is little information available to the public regarding their state and things that they need to exist peaceful in the society. One of the components that would go a long way to ensuring that their welfare is enhanced is the health sector. To begin with, it would be proper and fair to put in place a working office fully furnished with both human and non-human resources. The non-human resources would be in the ...

Sociology is a complex field of study that looks at many different aspects of the world we live in. Sociologists may study society as a whole, or study the social lives of individuals, groups, and societies. They might also consider behavior of humans, from individual contacts with strangers, to the intricacies of global interactions. The study of sociology involves looking at how large groups interact with each other with an eye toward making everything equal. It also ties together several other disciplines such as history, psychology, and economics . Sociologists use three different methods to study society. This section looks ...

Deviant behavior is a behavior that is different from others. It occurs because of non conformity with the norms. Deviance is behavior that goes against dominant norms of the society. It is, however, socially constructed, it is not just only a matter of individual personal choice, and is an inherent part of the society. Crime, however, represents form of deviance in which societies impose some penalties. Deviance is, however, dependent on the culture, and is constructed socially. This can be analyzed from the fact that Emile Durkheim (1966, p 263) mentioned that crime, which is a form of deviance ...

In crude terms, deviance is any behavior that is against social norms, and is generally of adequate severity to attract disapproval from the society. Such behavior can be either criminal or non-criminal. From a sociological perspective, deviant criminal behavior is a separate area of study called criminology. Examples of criminal deviance would include sexual abuse, organized crime, terrorism, etc. Examples of non-criminal deviance may include mental disorder, homosexuality (though this being non-criminal depends on the group considered), etc. The aim of this paper is to consider the deviant behavior of young offenders and analyze the same from a sociological perspective.

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At the present point in time, access to various media allows exposure to sexual behavior of all types. Whether sexual behavior is considered “normal” or “abnormal” requires definitions to be set in place for each term. In addition, the components of sexual activity considered abnormal may have some categories that invite legal prosecution and others that are thought to be deviant without being illegal. Finally, the influence of sexual variances on society can be important. Is normal sexuality the absence of abnormal variances? Who determines whether a sexual behavior is abnormal? What are consequences of practicing abnormal sexual activities? ...

The issue surrounding the legalization of marijuana is one of concern around the world. Many countries are currently assessing the move towards legalizing the drugs based on a number of recent studies that have been carried out in the field of medicine and economics. Researchers have proposed that the legalization of marijuana will not only offer medical improvements but, will also offer economic benefits to any country that seeks to legalize the drug. However, the arguments surrounding the legalizing of marijuana are strongly centered around money the government can earn and not so much on other areas. The legalization ...

- Introduction and Thesis Statement Sociologists believe that both deviance and race are things that have been socially constructed in the society and have been embedded in people’s way of life (Innes, 2003, p.34). Deviance attributes to the actions of one defiling the social norms engrained in the society, which causes one to be marginalized in a given society. Race is also a social construct of the society based on one’s phenotype, which often results to the stereotypes of certain people in the society (Lemelle, 1995, p.56). This paper will discuss how race impacts deviance behavior and sparks a ...

Introduction

Pragmatically, the deviant behaviour of white-collar criminals provides students of sociology a different exploration of how human nature works in clandestine operations in plain view. Society, at least superficially does not suspect a so-called white-collar individual of criminal behaviour in general, as stereotypes tend to lead people’s thoughts in the direction one way or another. While, the dishevelled, unkempt, anti-social “looking” individual exists as suspect of deviant behaviour by his/her mere appearance including labelled as a criminal in some regards, the white collar individual stands in society appearance wise as an upstanding citizen (Goode 2008).

Historically, the concept of white collar is not so new:

Edwin Sutherland created the concept of ...

Introduction

While many certainly agree that white collar crime presents serious legal issues the sociological implications, regarding deviant behavior, is not always obvious. No discussion inspires a proper balance for analysis without a relevant definition of our terms. According to a ‘Sociology’ glossary, published by the McGraw-Hill Higher Education (2014) group deviance is defined as “Behavior that violates the standards of conduct or expectations of a group or society.” The same glossary defines the concept or theory ‘anomie’ as a Durkheim term for “the loss of direction felt in a society when social control of individual behavior has become ineffective” (“Sociology Glossary,” 2014). In an effort ...

All the actions that go against the social norms can be said to be deviance. A norm refers to the set of rules and anticipations by which a certain group Particular society that. The sociologist in their classification has cited that any feeling or thought they judge, as a violation of a certain group is paramount to deviance. Deviance is relative to the time and place of occurrence (Clark, 2005). This essay intends to examine the different ways in which deviance has been used.

What are the different levels of deviance?

The three levels of deviance include Mertons, Anomie or Role Strain model, symbolism interactionism and Conflict theory and ...

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Deviance and social control closely relate to each other as deviance triggers the application of social control. Deviance is the behavior that violates the set standards of conduct and expectations of the society. Deviance is a violation of well-developed social norms and associates historically with normality. Deviance is a social upset and an immoral absolute. People such as alcoholic, mentally ill and compulsive gamblers are called deviants. Student coming late to school and dressing too casually for a formal function is also considered to be a deviant act in some societies. Society sets the standards of social behavior and people moving away from ...

ID Number The Communist Party of China overthrew imperialism, capitalism, and feudalism, and ultimately won the new-democratic revolution and established the People’s Republic of China. Through this, the socialist transformation of the private ownership through production was accomplished, exploitation was abolished, and the socialist system was eventually established. The Chinese constitution states that all power belongs to the people and that the state provides protection to the interests and lawful rights of the minorities and develops and upholds the relationship of unity, equality, and shared assistance among all people in China. Discrimination and oppression are prohibited including ...

In today‘s society, spanking is a “primitive” way of enforcing discipline on a child. It serves to heighten negative responses towards their parents, siblings, and other people around them. Parents attempt to curb the behavioral pattern of their children by spanking them. They do this to show that they love their children, but most spanking cases result in development of hatred towards the parents. Of course, there are those parents who believe that children become fearful and adhere to the prescribed rules of the society when threatened by corporal punishment, but the reality is that spanking is not the best ...

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Howard Becker makes a claim that social groups normally create deviance by making specific rules whose infraction constitute deviance. When these rules are applied to particular people who are not part of the group, there are bound be infractions and as such, the people will be labeled as deviants. Howard’s point of view seems to suggest that deviance is not a quality of the act commited by an individual but is rather a consequence or a result of application of sanctions and rules to an offender. Personally, I agree with Becker’s assertion. It is very common in the society to ...

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According to Degher and Hughes, the Identity Change process takes place via four processes. These four steps are the Initial status, recognizing, placing and the new status. The identity change process treats the identity change process from a career point of view. It therefore addresses both external and internal features of this identity change process. According to Hughes and Decker, the new status adoption process mainly occurs through two sequential cognitive or internal processes. First is the recognition. Here the individual makes a realization that his current status or condition is inappropriate. For instance, an individual realizes that he is extremely ...

Juvenile Delinquency Research Proposal

Juvenile delinquency refers to a crime perpetrated by a minor who has not yet reached maturity. Since it has been seen in many scientific studies that a person doesn't attain full maturity until he reaches 18 years of age, juvenile offenders are treated differently than adults by the court of justice. In US there is a separate justice system for juveniles to deal with juvenile offenders. Based on the principle of "parens patriae", juvenile courts function like a guardian or parent by taking decisions in favor of the wellbeing of the children. However, despite separate justice system for juveniles, USA prosecutes juvenile offenders, guilty ...

Sexual offenders are required to register their contact details with the authorities. This assists to keep track of their residence and activity promptly in order to avoid recidivism. Registration of contact details and email addresses notify the sexual offender that they are under constant scrutiny. Therefore, they will desist from such activity or rather become more prudent in executing their deviant behaviors. More often than not, sexual offenders are known to go back to the vice even after imprisonment. The reasons underlying this argument are lack of follow-ups by the authorities and poor monitoring and assessment methods. In this ...

February , 2013

Analysis of New York Times Articles on Social Deviance Article 1 Parker-Pope, Tara. “College Students Behaving Badly.” New York Times 31 July 2008. Web. Retrieved 23 Feb. 2013. Rather than focus exclusively on articles within a very short period of three to four months, it seemed better to examine if the New York Times routinely publishes articles that address social deviance directly, instead of simply mentioning activities that might be construed as socially deviant. Using this approach, a search was made of the newspaper’s website using the term “social deviance;” only a few results appeared that were less ...

In the contemporary society and considering the fact that abortion is legal in America, many issues still linger around abortion that makes it become a form of deviant behavior. Most of these factors are either religious or moral aspects in the society that despite legalization of abortion still holds a deviant perspective of abortion (Ruth, 2). Considering a study carried out in the US in the year 2005, about 56% of American women have had an abortion at least once on their lives between the age of 15 years and 45 years. This attributes to a further 51% of the total American ...

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Considered by film critiques as the funniest and yet the most provocative documentary film of 2008 is Bill Maher’s “Religulous”. The title itself is a combination of religion and ridiculous, implying an idea of religion’s ridicule and inconsistencies. Maher went to several places to interview Muslims, Jews, and Christians to find the unlikeliest believers in the possible. Maher wanted to prove a point that more and more Americans are becoming non-believers and point out the inconsistencies he found in the bible. However, this essay will not talk about the ridiculous characteristic of religion as Maher conveys in his documentary. ...