WEEK 7 /
DEVIANCE/ ANGELA WIBOWO
Summary :
Norm is a social
expectation to guide people’s behavior. When we violate the norms, it is called
deviance. There are two types of deviance, the first one is crime that is the
violation that enacted laws, and it is called formal deviance. The second one
refer to informal social norms violations, and not too enacted to law, and it
is called informal deviance.
According to the
article, there are some theories of Deviance, there are Psychological and
biological explanations, Social-Strain Typology, Structural-Functionalism,
Conflict Theory, and Labeling Theory. Psychological and biological explanation
is explaining that someone’s behavior can become deviant because of the problem
with their body system, such as the problem with brain and neurological system
that effect their psychological and makes someone deviant. Social-Strain
behavior by Robert K. Merton, explain with typology of deviant behavior, or
with classification scheme to understand it easier. Structural-Functionalism is
explained that deviant behavior help to distinguish what behavior that is
acceptable in the society. Conflict theory explained using the report and
tracking crimes and divided it like white collar crime and others. Labeling
theory is about someone becomes deviant when they already have label in
society, or they adopt the label by do something that is relatable with the
label.
What was
interesting / what did you learn ?
I’m interested
in statistics about the crime that there are so many cases and according to the
article it is compared to the other countries and I’m interested about crime
cases by gender such as the numbers of rapes in US, and it is showed that the number
of people who got rapes by sex from 1995-2010 is decrease. And I found it is
interesting.
Disscussion :
I’m a little bit
curious about white lies like If there is some cases that someone does
something that is violate law, such as killing someone who wants to to crime,
is it still called deviance?
I think this is a really good post. I'm also curious about the crime statistics in the US and why it's declining as years goes by
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