Sunday, November 14, 2010
Deviance
What is deviance? It's an act out of the norm. What you may think is not normal to you, may be normal to others. An example would be carrying a basket of food on your head. To me, this is deviant, but that's because in America you don't see people walking out of the grocery store carrying their food by placing it on their head. We carry our groceries with bags using our hands. Another example of deviance would be walking barefoot into stores. Someone in the store would look at you thinking, "Why the heck aren't they wearing any shoes...?" Whenever we go to stores you see everyone wearing something on their feet. So we define this as deviant. There are many other examples of deviance. It all depends on who thinks what is normal and what is not normal to them.
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I agree deviance is relative to perception. Different cultures' ideas of deviance are different because they are taught different things are normal.
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