Deviant Behavior Sociological Analysis
1. What do sociologists mean when they describe deviance as being relative? Provide an example of a deviant behavior and identify how it is relative.
Deviance behavior is relative because it is a process of social differentiation, which is prone to change based on the time and place. What is deviant in given time, community, place or group of people can be non-deviant in another context. In other words, no action or trait is deviant everywhere and all the time.
2. What are deviant places, and how are they associated with deviant acts?
Deviance takes place in particular social places. These places can include situations and opportunities that trigger an individual to commit a deviant act. For example, small cities and crime-characterized neighborhoods can be deviant places. Deviant places by their nature can motivate people to engage in deviant acts.
3. Sociologists detail the importance of contextual and social patterns for deviant acts such as abuse, murder, and rape. Choose from abuse, murder, and rape, and then detail an important social pattern or variation.
4. Compare and contrast two different types of suicide, providing an example of each.
The main types of suicide are:
Altruistic suicide: Suicide committed for the welfare or benefit of the group. For example, a girl or a woman committing suicide as way of expressing the violation of women rights in a particular group. The individual can do so to form the foundation of questioning and investigation gender-based unfair treatment.
Egoistic suicide: Suicide committed for individual reasons.
Anomic suicide: Suicide that emerges from disrupted social values. People who commit anomic suicide feel lost or in normaless situations.
Honor or “Virgin Suicides”: Occurs as result of clash between traditional and modern values. For example, a girl killing herself because the traditional values are against her for having a boyfriend. Also, the girl can kill herself because she is against arranged marriages.
Adolescent Suicide: Suicide committed by the youth after being overburdened by a major problem like broken romantic relationship.
Reference
Clinard, M., & Meier, R. (2016). Sociology of Deviant Behavior ( 15th Edition). Cengage Learning EMEA. Retrieved from https://www.perlego.com/book/801840/sociology-of-deviant-behavior-pdf