1.
Summary :
When we talk about deviance we cannot separate it with norms.
Norms is an social expectation that exist in a society. A person needs to fit
to the norm in order to be accepted within a society. Meanwhile deviance have a
meaning of behavior that violates cultural norms, in short it’s aan opposite of
norms. There are a few types of deviance that we can find in everyday life, the
first one is formal deviance. Formal deviance is a type of deviance that
happened when someone doing something that breaking the written law, such as
murder, rape, and robbery. And the other type of deviance is informal deviance.
If formal deviance deal with breaking the law, formal deviance is something you
do that break the social norm, such as fart in public, eating with left hand
(in most of Asian country it’s a norm to eat with right hand), and giving
things with left hand (in Indonesia it’s impolite to give things with your left
hand).
2.
What was interesting/what did you learn :
I actually already learn about deviance back in my
university, but I never realize that not every deviance is a negative things.
And just because it’s different from the norm doesn’t mean it’s something bad.
For example, in my country we have to listen to our senior words even though it
might be bad (and it’s normal thing) but there are people who actually doesn’t
listen to them, and it’s not necessarily a bad thing.
3.
Discussion point :
If we went to a foreign country and without knowing doing a
something that out of the norm (for example when western people talk out loud
in a public space at Asian country) is it still considered a deviance? What is
the standard of deviance? Do we have to know the norm first or it does not
matter?
This is a good post, and I'm interested in it. But can you give another example about deviance in korea?
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