1. Homework- Study Test Monday Unit 6 & Review Sheet Due
Monday December 5th, 2016
EQ- What is deviance? How does deviance enforce conformity?
Deviance is described as behavior that departs from societal or groups norms.
Think back to the ’s, what behavior was considered to be deviant when your parents were in high school? Is this behavior no longer thought to be a departure from societal norm?
Homework- Study Test Monday Unit 6 & Review Sheet Due

2. social DEVIANCE

3. What is Deviance?
Deviance – behavior that departs from societal and group norms
Can be negative or positive
1. Negative Deviance- involves behavior that fails to meet accepted norms
2. Positive Deviance-involves behavior that overconforms to social expectations

4. Labeling Deviants are labeled as so by dominant social groups
Deviants obstruct the function of society
Deviants represent challenges to the mainstream
Deviants may have lost key power struggles

6. Reasons People are “Normal”
Belong to a dominant social or cultural group
Desire to belong to such a group
Accepted the culture of the dominant group
They have been socially controlled to act in certain ways and believe certain things

8. Reasons People are “Deviant”
Upbringing is different from dominant norms
Simply rebelling or acting out for attention
Self-concept has been developed to believe they are deviant
Others treat the individual as a deviant

10. Social Control
How dominant groups in society promote conformity to societal norms.

11. Social Control Internal Social Control – lies within the individual
Developed during the socialization process
Knowing the difference between right and wrong
External Social Control – based on social sanctions
Established to force CONFORMITY; positive sanctions- awards, increase in allowances, promotions, smile pf approvals
Negative sanctions- criticism, fines, and imprisonment