Deviance According To Durkheim's Four Types Of

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Deviance is defined as modes of action that do not conform to the norms or valves held by most members of a group or society. According to Durkheim, argued that deviance is a normal and necessary part of any society because it contributes to the social order. However, social norms lose their hold over individual behavior. He identified four types of functions that deviance fulfills in our behaviors: affirmation of cultural norms and values, clarification of right and wrong, unification of others in society, and promoting social changes. Two types of views in deviance are biological, and psychological. Therefore, one of the functions that deviance fulfills in our norms and values into affirmation of cultural. For example, if a thief stolen a valuable item from a store, but, sentencing a thief to prison affirms our culturally held value that steeling is wrong. This shows that we actually seeing a person punished for a deviant act reinforce what a society sees as acceptable or unacceptable behavior. During sanctions of a crime can mode of reward (positive) or punishment (negative) that reinforces socially accepted forms of behavior. In the …show more content…

Indeed we clarification of right and wrong in behavior that individual makes in life. For instance, a student cheats on a test and receives a failing grade for the class, the rest of the class learns that cheating is wrong. As a result, this is a deviant behavior, when a person does something wrong and right. The norms appropriate behavior in a given range of social situation. Indeed, clarification of right and wrong make occur different ways in having positive behavior. Such as, a student who walks inside a classroom and know what to do while a professor is lecturing class, right thing to do is to listen and talk when the professor ask a question. As can be seen, we clarification the positive and negative in our norms reflect divisions of power and

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