When examining the word deviance you realize that most would say this word is often accompanied with negative thoughts and or feelings. Many even believe it’s easy to pinpoint in our everyday life. Yet deviance is a word that ignites fear, desire, excitement, confusion, and more commonly anger. So I ask you this; how do we interpret deviance? And how do we interpret persons or acts as normal? To answer these questions you must first understand that our knowledge about “what” is deviant is marginal at best. Also what we comprehend about its origins, benefits and consequences is even less understood. The word deviance is simply describes an action or behavior that violates social norms. This includes formal and informal violations of social norms. It’s a known fact that acts of deviance are consider violations of social norms, however these same violations are more often than not the catalyst for change, the catalyst for …show more content…
This simply means that it’s your right in fact it’s your duty to overthrow any government that acts against the common interest of the nation people. The right of revolution has been used throughout history to vindicate various rebellions, such as the English Civil War, the French Revolution and the American Revolution. The American Revolution was a political uprising that happen towards the end of the 1700’s, form 1765-1783 to be precise. During this time the Thirteen American Colonies made a stance and founded the United States of America to reject the authority of Great Britain. The United States of America simply rejected the British parliament laws and taxes, which eventually lead to the Revolutionary War. The American Revolution was clearly fueled by the deviant behaviors of the colonists. So in fact deviance is the seed in which our great nation sprouted