What comes to mind when you hear deviance or deviants? How would you define deviant behavior?

Yanomami Yanomami culture Do we look at it as deviance? 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

Deviance brings Stigma 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 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

Deviance 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

Crime 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

Sanctions 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