Essays on Folkways

Introduction

This essay will investigate the definition of deviance in society from a sociological perspective. It will then define what it means to be socially deviant. This essay will go onto investigate what impacts deviance has on society. This essay will conclude that for some sociologists, deviance performs a necessary function in society that help establish and reaffirm our social norms, and can help us fix the problems within it The term deviance in sociology refers to an act that violates the standard social norms in a society (White et al, 2000). Succinctly it is a transgression of any kind ...

Folkways refers to the standards of manners recognized in the social context but lacks moral implication. These are norms that govern the day to day behaviors followed by the people due to convenience or tradition. The folkways are not associated with the serious consequences when they are broken. The examples of folkways are cultural dress and food habits. For example, poor table manners amount to breaking the folkways but there are no any legal or moral consequence for breaking the folkways relating to table manners.

Mores refers to the stringent norms used in controlling ethical and moral behavior. Mores ...

Attitude and conformity

Cognitive dissonance involves a situation where a person’s cognitions contradict. Essentially, this trait results in emotional turbulence, hence changes the attitude that people have. This means that it determines the attitude people may develop. People are more likely to employ the central route in persuasion when dealing with issues accepted in the society. They are however more likely to see the peripheral route when they address issues that are not accepted. In both routes, their presentation determines the persuasiveness (Aronson et al. 1973). Whenever attitudes are highly accessible and arbitrary, they are likely to predict spontaneous behaviors. This ...

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Description of a Past Experience on Committing a Deviant Act

Background: My Past Experience on Deviance Perhaps one of the most memorable experiences that involve the commission of a deviant act is my intentional use of a jar filled with eighty quarter-dollar coins to pay for items that cost close to, but not more than $20 in mall stores. During that time, I was very aware that there really is nothing wrong with paying for items using quarter-dollar coins inside a jar, given that there is no state or federal law that regulates the use and amount of certain currency denominations allowed for cash ...

Structural functionalism is a sociological perspective that interprets the society as a structure with interrelated parts. Functionalism focuses on society as a complete unit in terms of function of its constituent elements such as norms, customs, traditions, and institutions, etc. At the center of the analysis are social structures from which social functions are deduced. According to structuralism, the world is composed of mutually interrelated part and how they operate as systematic wholes to maintain equilibrium. This equilibrium in the society can be attained and is based on two perspectives, either the consensus perspective or conflict perspective. Consensus perspective proposes that ...

While all of humanity shares commonalities, one of the most fascinating forms of cultural difference are the social norms or folkways of a culture. Most cultures in the modern world share major beliefs-- for example, murder without reason is restricted in nearly all cultures-- but the social norms of a culture vary greatly from place to place. Never are these folkways so apparent as when an individual is immersed within a culture that has vastly different social norms. However, the importance of social norms and the ways in which society enforces them can also be seen when an individual violates them. ...