According to the Henslin (2014), deviance is the violation of norms, rules or expectations. In Sociology the perception that others have about the act is what makes something deviant. In June, 2015 two women engaged in a physical altercation in the aisle of a Walmart store. This altercation included the six year old son of one of the women. The incident started with a verbal disagreement between a woman driving a scooter and a Walmart employee. A second women interceded and the event escalated to a physical fight between the two women. This was all caught on video by one of the witnesses (Hurley, 2015). Social norms are predictable behaviors; women fighting, children engaging in both physical and verbal assault and people allowing such behaviors to continue are considered deviant acts in American society. …show more content…
The immediate audience consisted of men and women who were both Caucasian and people of color. At first the witnesses laughed and joked about the incident. A male witness stated, “This is an example of white-trash at its’ finest.” Eventually the witnesses started calling out to the women asking them to stop.
As the fight continued, the woman with the six year old son told her son to hit the other woman in the face. The child ended up participating in the fight and can be seen throwing bottles at and hitting the other woman. The witnesses attempted to stop the child by calling out to him, this resulted in a verbal tirade by the child. Some of the witnesses could be heard asking each other if they should step in and try to stop the women. A male voice stated, “I can’t stop them or I will be charged.” A female voice said that security and the police are