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    The document defines deviance as behavior that violates social norms and expectations. It discusses sociologist Robert Merton's typology of deviance, which identifies 5 types of deviance based on the acceptance or rejection of social goals and means. These include innovation, conformity, ritualism, retreatism, and rebellion. Crime is discussed as one form of deviance that violates legal norms. Different types of crimes are also outlined such as white-collar crime, victimless crimes, corporate crime, and status crimes. Civil disobedience is defined as violating the law to promote social change.

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    The document defines deviance as behavior that violates social norms and expectations. It discusses sociologist Robert Merton's typology of deviance, which identifies 5 types of deviance based on the acceptance or rejection of social goals and means. These include innovation, conformity, ritualism, retreatism, and rebellion. Crime is discussed as one form of deviance that violates legal norms. Different types of crimes are also outlined such as white-collar crime, victimless crimes, corporate crime, and status crimes. Civil disobedience is defined as violating the law to promote social change.

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    The document defines deviance as behavior that violates social norms and expectations. It discusses sociologist Robert Merton's typology of deviance, which identifies 5 types of deviance based on the acceptance or rejection of social goals and means. These include innovation, conformity, ritualism, retreatism, and rebellion. Crime is discussed as one form of deviance that violates legal norms. Different types of crimes are also outlined such as white-collar crime, victimless crimes, corporate crime, and status crimes. Civil disobedience is defined as violating the law to promote social change.

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    Definitions OF Deviance

    • Behavior that is recognized as


    violating expected rules and norms.

    • Behavior that departs significantly


    from social expectations.
    Sociological Definition of Deviance
    • Merton described 5 types of deviance in
    terms of the acceptance or rejection of social
    goals and the institutionalized means of
    achieving them:
    TYPES OF Deviance
    • 1. Innovation is a response due to the strain generated by
    our culture's emphasis on wealth and the lack of
    opportunities to get rich, which causes people to be
    "innovators" by engaging in stealing and selling drugs.
    • Innovators accept society's goals, but reject socially
    acceptable means of achieving them. (e.g.: monetary
    success is gained through crime).
    2. Conformists
    • Accept society's goals and the socially
    acceptable means of achieving them (e.g.:
    monetary success is gained through hard
    work).
    • Merton claims that conformists are mostly
    middle-class people in middle class jobs who
    have been able to access the opportunities in
    society such as a better education to achieve
    monetary success through hard work.
    3. Ritualism
    • refers to the inability to reach a cultural goal thus
    embracing the rules to the point where they lose sight of
    their larger goals in order to feel respectable.
    • Ritualizes reject society's goals, but accept society's
    institutionalized means.
    • Ritualizes are most commonly found in dead-
    end, repetitive jobs, where they are unable to achieve
    society's goals but still adhere to society's means of
    achievement and social norms.
    4. Retreatism
    • Is the rejection of both cultural goals and
    means, letting the person "drop out".
    • Retreatists reject the society's goals and the
    legitimate means to achieve them.
    • Merton sees them as true deviants, as they commit
    acts of deviance to achieve things that do not
    always go along with society's values.
    • is somehow similar to retreatism, because rebellions
    also reject both the cultural goals and means, but
    they go one step further to a "counterculture" that
    supports other social orders that already exist (rule
    breaking).
    • Rebels reject society's goals and legitimate means to
    achieve them, and instead creates new goals and
    means to replace those of society, creating not only
    new goals to achieve but also new ways to achieve
    these goals that other rebels will find acceptable.
    Crime

    • Crime is one type of Deviance


    • Norm violations encoded onto law
    • Some crime is the norm
    • Everybody has/will commit some crime
    T Y P E S OF CRIME
    White-Collar Crime– “crimeinthesuites”
    • Crime committed by people of high social
    position in the course of their occupation.
    • Does not involve violence/embezzlement
    • Often end in civil hearings – not labeled as
    criminal
    • Often only pay fine; 50/50 chance of going to
    jail
    VictimlessCrimes

    • No readily apparent victim – harm is done to


    the self.
    • Gambling, drug use, prostitution
    • Euthanasia?
    Corporate Crime

    • Illegal actions of a corporation or people acting


    on its behalf/another type of white-collar crime
    • Breaking environmental law
    • Enron Corporation
    • Most cases go unpunished
    • Focus is on the corporation/not the individual.
    Fined at most.
    •
    Status Crime
    • Actions by
    “juveniles”
    that are illegal
    because of age
    • Drinking
    alcohol
    Civil Disobedience
    • Violating law to make a social statement.
    • Violating a law that is seen as unjust/immoral
    • Post conventional morality (Kohlberg).
    PERFORMANCE TASK

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