Deviance is a breaking of based contextual, cultural, or social norms, whether folkways, morals, or law. It can be as minor as driving a car by a woman which isn’t allowed for women in a country like Saudi Arabia. It is something very minor but it is against their laws. It's against their customs. So when a woman drives a car in Saudi Arabia, she violates social criterion and norms. Although the word “deviance” has a negative concept in everyday language, sociologists recognize that deviance is not necessarily bad. In fact, from a structural functionalist view, one of the good participations of deviance is that it participated in social change. A man wears no shirt and lying in the middle of the street would be up normal strange behavior, …show more content…
It is also obvious that criminal behavior is another shape of deviance (one that is defined as the breaking of legal rules). As a general rule, so, we can say that there is a clear distinction between crime and defiant behavior "All crime is, by definition, deviant behavior, but not all kinds of deviance are criminal". Generally, we can say that the study of "crime" can be seen as the preserve of the criminologist, whereas sociologists tend to focus their attention and interest on the wider social implications of all shapes of rule-breaking (and, of course, rule creating) behavior in any given society. However, as we shall notice, this does include the analysis of crime and criminal behavior considered as forms of deviance. In passing, it might be useful to note that we will necessarily have to look at different other concepts surrounding the issue of deviance (such as those of ideology, power, social control and so on) if we are to understand the concept sociologically.it is important to understand the meaning of such concepts in order to understand the concept of deviance in terms of the ways in which various communities develop different conceptual frameworks regarding deviance ("ideology") and the way in which different social groups might be able to create and impel conceptions of deviant behavior towards others ("power" and "social