Deviance in a sociological context describes actions or behaviors that violate cultural norms including formally-enacted rules (ex: crime) as well as informal violations of social norms (ex: rejecting folkways).
The past few days, we have been learning about how society thinks, and how everything that isn't considered "normal" is weird. But what exactly is the norm? To be honest, I'm not sure anyone can even pinpoint anywhere close to it. In class, we had heard multiple examples of how deviance is present in our country; in society. The example that stuck out to me the most, was the blue tooth example. So let's just say a random guy was driving in his car and his blue tooth ear piece was completely out of sight. The person to the left of him would be like "Whoa, why is that guy talking to himself? He's soooooooo weird!!" However, the person to the right of him wouldn't think anything of it, because he/she would see the man's ear piece and realize that he is talking to someone on the phone. That's considered to be normal.
I agree with the blue tooth example. Yes, people would be thinking like "What's wrong that guy? Is he really talking to himself? That's messed up." We can all say this is deviant to us. But really the guy is talking to someone else on a device that no one would really notice. Then we realize "Ohh...that guy isn't weird after all."
ReplyDeleteHaha I liked your example, that's so funny and true. I actually worked with a guy who would always talk to himself and everyone thought he was super weird because that's deviant in our society.
ReplyDeleteI thought your example was funny and I have totally seen that happen before. I think people need to understand that their may be another thing happening and not just suppose the person is talking to them self.
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