Week 7 : posting by Yeong Su Jeon

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Yeong Su Jeon

 

Summary

Deviance is behavior that violate cultural norms, and it is relative from culture to culture. There are two type of deviance. One is formal deviance. Formal deviance is some crime like murder, robbery, assault. another is informal deviance. Informal deviance is moral deviant behavior like picking nose or act rudely to others.

Theories of deviance are various. There are Structural-Functionalism that deviance helps people to distinguish what they can do or can’t do, Conflict Theory that deviant behavior like criminal act enact because of social imbalance, Labeling Theory that people become deviant because they got deviant leveling by others, and so on.

 

 

Opinion

In this reading, I’m interested ‘Social-Strain Typology’. When I learned about deviance, I naturally imagined it is just wicked deed, but actually it has wide scale and it’s contents are not trivial. I’m exciting especially the explanation of ‘ritualism’. I learned that if people reject cultural goal, they were categorized as deviant even though they conform to system. This Social-Strain Typology seems to show us that every can become deviant.

 

 

Question

I search internet to understand the argument of Structural-Functionalist that access to Deviance, and I find the sentence that Structural-Functionalism is term that supplement and alternate Functionalism. so that, I wonder difference between Structural-Functionalism and Functionalism. What is Structural-Functionalism supplement and alternate in Functionalism? Do Functionalism has same view about Deviance with Structural-Functionalism, or defines differently?

 

picture brings from : http://freesociologybooks.com/Introduction_To_Sociology/08_Deviance_and_Crime.php