Functionalist Perspective On Deviance

Deviance is the any behavior that interrupts with communal norms or customs. Norms are rules and expectations by which members of certain group are conventionally guided. Deviance can be unlawful or lawful. The concept of deviance stays complicated because sociological norms vary across communities, time and regions such that what is accepted in certain group may be unacceptable to another group of people (Fields et al, 2015). A case in point is India in which activities such as nudity in public places, alcoholism, robbery, female circumcision and prostitution among others are termed as deviance. People with such behaviors are called deviants.

Functionalist Perspective of Explaining Deviance To start with, the functionalism perspective claims that deviance help to create social steadiness by explaining no-normative and normative behaviors. Deviance gives room for the majorities to unite on their view against those who marked to as deviant. On this perspective, it is believed that the norms pressurizes members to certain goals, and if a member fails to attain the goals act normless to attain it. This divides members in different groups according on how they strain to anomie. The groups include conformity, which is the first group that agrees on norms against the rest of the members in the society and they try to attain their goals through ordinary means, for example in case one wants a good life, they can work hard in school. Those who fail to attain through normal ways, may