1. Is it Deviance?
In the following 10 slides, determine if what you see constitutes Deviance.
You may base your decisions on behavior, beliefs, or the condition of the person.
Support your positions with evidence or support from your reading on “Deviance and Social Control.”

2. Deviance?

3. Deviance?

4. Deviance?

5. Deviance?

6. Deviance?

7. Deviance?

8. Deviance?

9. I’m single, I have a career, and I’m happy with my life.
Deviance?
I’m single, I have a career, and I’m happy with my life.

10. Deviance?

11. Deviance?

12. What is Deviance?
Any behavior, belief, or condition that violates significant social norms in the society or group in which it occurs
Interestingly – one who is considered “deviant” by one category of people may be seen as “conformist” in another group

13. Who Defines Deviance? Common Sense Thinking Sociologists
Inherent in certain kinds of behavior or people
Sociologists
Formal property of social situations and structures
Deviance is relative- An act becomes deviant when it is defined as such

14. “Deviance is not a property inherent in certain forms of behavior; it is a property conferred upon these forms by the audiences which directly or indirectly witness them. The critical variable in the study of deviance, then, is the social audience rather than the individual actor”. - Kai T. Erikson (1964)