What comes to mind when you hear deviance or deviants?

How would you define deviant behavior?

Yanomami culture Eat Grubs, frogs and

other insects Use hallucinogenic

drugs Practice

endocannibalism Naked in public

Do we look at it as deviance?

We see the Yanomami as being deviant based on our own norms

Stigma is characteristics that discredit people

We see stigmas attached to a variety of people People who are blind People who are deaf People with mental handicaps People with different types of disease (AIDS)

Deviance- Any violation of rules or norms

Crime- the violation of norms written into law

Social Control- A groups formal and informal means of enforcing its norms

Stigma- blemishes that discredit a person’s claim to a normal identity

Social Order- a groups usual and customary social arrangements, on which its members depend and on which they base their lives

Violation of rules that have been written into law Murder Rape

In some countries profiteering is a crime punishable by death

In the U.S. its accepted In China, people would

be hanged in public

Positive Sanctions are used to reward people for conforming to norms. Smiles Awards

Negative Sanctions are used to give disapproval for breaking a norm. Frown Imprisonment

Shaming is used in small communities and to keep children in line. As the society gets larger, shaming is not as

effective Degradation Ceremony is an attempt to

remake the self by stripping away an individual’s self identity. Court Martial