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   Fatima
Roll No: 05
Definitions OF Deviance
  • Behavior that is recognized as
violating expected rules and norms.

•Behavior that departs significantly
    from social expectations.
Sociological Definition of Deviance
• Merton described 5 types of deviance in
  terms of the acceptance or rejection of social
  goals and the institutionalized means of
  achieving them:
TYPES OF Deviance
• 1. Innovation is a response due to the strain generated by
  our culture's emphasis on wealth and the lack of
  opportunities to get rich, which causes people to be
  "innovators" by engaging in stealing and selling drugs.
• Innovators accept society's goals, but reject socially
  acceptable means of achieving them. (e.g.: monetary
  success is gained through crime).
2. Conformists
• Accept society's goals and the socially
  acceptable means of achieving them (e.g.:
  monetary success is gained through hard
  work).
• Merton claims that conformists are mostly
  middle-class people in middle class jobs who
  have been able to access the opportunities in
  society such as a better education to achieve
  monetary success through hard work.
3. Ritualism
• refers to the inability to reach a cultural goal thus
  embracing the rules to the point where they lose sight of
  their larger goals in order to feel respectable.
• Ritualizes reject society's goals, but accept society's
  institutionalized means.
• Ritualizes are most commonly found in dead-
  end, repetitive jobs, where they are unable to achieve
  society's goals but still adhere to society's means of
  achievement and social norms.
4. Retreatism
• Is the rejection of both cultural goals and
  means, letting the person "drop out".
• Retreatists reject the society's goals and the
  legitimate means to achieve them.
• Merton sees them as true deviants, as they commit
  acts of deviance to achieve things that do not
  always go along with society's values.
• is somehow similar to retreatism, because rebellions
  also reject both the cultural goals and means, but
  they go one step further to a "counterculture" that
  supports other social orders that already exist (rule
  breaking).
• Rebels reject society's goals and legitimate means to
  achieve them, and instead creates new goals and
  means to replace those of society, creating not only
  new goals to achieve but also new ways to achieve
  these goals that other rebels will find acceptable.
Crime


•   Crime is one type of Deviance
•   Norm violations encoded onto law
•   Some crime is the norm
•   Everybody has/will commit some crime
TYPES OF CRIME
White-Collar Crime – “crime in the suites”
• Crime committed by people of high social
  position in the course of their occupation.
• Does not involve violence/embezzlement
• Often end in civil hearings – not labeled as
  criminal
• Often only pay fine; 50/50 chance of going to
  jail
Victimless Crimes


• No readily apparent victim – harm is done to
  the self.
• Gambling, drug use, prostitution
• Euthanasia?
Corporate Crime

• Illegal actions of a corporation or people acting
  on its behalf/another type of white-collar crime
• Breaking environmental law
• Enron Corporation
• Most cases go unpunished
• Focus is on the corporation/not the individual.
  Fined at most.
•
Status Crime
• Actions by “juveniles” that are illegal because of age
• Drinking alcohol
Civil Disobedience
• Violating law to make a social statement.
• Violating a law that is seen as unjust/immoral
• Post conventional morality (Kohlberg).
Types of Deviance

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Types of Deviance

  • 1.
  • 2. Presented By: Fatima Roll No: 05
  • 3. Definitions OF Deviance • Behavior that is recognized as violating expected rules and norms. •Behavior that departs significantly from social expectations.
  • 5. • Merton described 5 types of deviance in terms of the acceptance or rejection of social goals and the institutionalized means of achieving them:
  • 7.
  • 8. • 1. Innovation is a response due to the strain generated by our culture's emphasis on wealth and the lack of opportunities to get rich, which causes people to be "innovators" by engaging in stealing and selling drugs. • Innovators accept society's goals, but reject socially acceptable means of achieving them. (e.g.: monetary success is gained through crime).
  • 9.
  • 10. 2. Conformists • Accept society's goals and the socially acceptable means of achieving them (e.g.: monetary success is gained through hard work). • Merton claims that conformists are mostly middle-class people in middle class jobs who have been able to access the opportunities in society such as a better education to achieve monetary success through hard work.
  • 11. 3. Ritualism • refers to the inability to reach a cultural goal thus embracing the rules to the point where they lose sight of their larger goals in order to feel respectable. • Ritualizes reject society's goals, but accept society's institutionalized means. • Ritualizes are most commonly found in dead- end, repetitive jobs, where they are unable to achieve society's goals but still adhere to society's means of achievement and social norms.
  • 12. 4. Retreatism • Is the rejection of both cultural goals and means, letting the person "drop out". • Retreatists reject the society's goals and the legitimate means to achieve them. • Merton sees them as true deviants, as they commit acts of deviance to achieve things that do not always go along with society's values.
  • 13. • is somehow similar to retreatism, because rebellions also reject both the cultural goals and means, but they go one step further to a "counterculture" that supports other social orders that already exist (rule breaking). • Rebels reject society's goals and legitimate means to achieve them, and instead creates new goals and means to replace those of society, creating not only new goals to achieve but also new ways to achieve these goals that other rebels will find acceptable.
  • 14. Crime • Crime is one type of Deviance • Norm violations encoded onto law • Some crime is the norm • Everybody has/will commit some crime
  • 16. White-Collar Crime – “crime in the suites” • Crime committed by people of high social position in the course of their occupation. • Does not involve violence/embezzlement • Often end in civil hearings – not labeled as criminal • Often only pay fine; 50/50 chance of going to jail
  • 17. Victimless Crimes • No readily apparent victim – harm is done to the self. • Gambling, drug use, prostitution • Euthanasia?
  • 18. Corporate Crime • Illegal actions of a corporation or people acting on its behalf/another type of white-collar crime • Breaking environmental law • Enron Corporation • Most cases go unpunished • Focus is on the corporation/not the individual. Fined at most. •
  • 19. Status Crime • Actions by “juveniles” that are illegal because of age • Drinking alcohol
  • 20. Civil Disobedience • Violating law to make a social statement. • Violating a law that is seen as unjust/immoral • Post conventional morality (Kohlberg).