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Those who have a relativist conception of deviance define deviance as those behaviors that illicit a definition or label of deviance: Social groups create deviance by making the rules whose infraction constitutes deviance, and by applying those rules to particular people and labeling them as outsiders. For this point of view,
13 Ιαν 2021 · Clinically, sociopathic or psychopathic are those people who exhibit the characteristics of antisocial personality disorder (ASPD), classified as pervasive disregard towards the rights and...
1 Ιαν 2013 · Social psychological perspectives on deviance provide discussions of the nature of deviance and explanations of the definition, antecedents, or consequences of deviance that implicate both personal (behavioral or intrapsychic) and social (interpersonal, group, macrosocial) structures and processes.
The sociological theories mobilized in this course attempt to parse out why people engage in deviant behavior, how they become deviant, how certain behaviors and characteristics are defined as deviant and the consequences of being labeled as deviant within a society.
This chapter will seek to clarify the theoretical objectives and scope of Merton's work on anomie and strain as a sociology of deviant behavior, and analyze some of its pathways and turning...
Learning Objectives. After reading this chapter, you should be able to. 2.1 Describe the contributions of evidence-based methods to modern understandings of deviant behavior. 2.2 Examine the nature of scientific theory. 2.3 List the criteria for evaluating a theory.
The sociology of deviance refuses to die, despite decades-long critiques. In the 1970s, Scheff, Gove, and Chauncey treated the pages of the American Sociological Review to debates about labeling theories’ approaches to mental illness (e.g. Chauncey 1975; Gove 1975; Scheff 1975).
