Corey Bates Argosy University Sociology In A Global Perspective M4A2: Application Paper 11/5/2014 Describe an example of a television program that you believe clearly displays social deviance, and explain why you specifically selected it. In this television program, how are people “labeled” as socially deviating from the expected social norms, and who does this labeling? Analyze the deviance, using terms such as primary deviance, the infringement of a standard or decide that does not bring about the violator's being slandered as degenerate, retrospective labeling, and stigma. Apply Durkheim’s four functions of deviance to the deviant actions in the television program. What purpose(s) does the deviance play? 1 .The example of a TV show that …show more content…
Crime is a manifestation of aberrant and is ordinary to sound social orders. Wrong doing rates vacillate about whether, because of the complex nature of society. Solid social orders have generally steady wrongdoing rates. Low wrongdoing rates are identified with a broken society. Open, adaptable social orders with flexibility have wrongdoing and degenerate conduct. Wrongdoing rates which are excessively high add brokenness to society by: -decimating trust and solidarity -making social confusion. When I think about all of those things and the TV show itself and how much crime and corruption that goes on into the city the city and the people will know they are not alone and by any means the job will get …show more content…
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