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    conflict‚ and deviance. He observed that social periods of disruption (economic depression‚ for instance) brought about greater anomie and higher rates of crime‚ suicide‚ and deviance. Durkheim felt that sudden change caused a state of anomie. The system breaks down‚ either during a great prosperity or a great depression‚ anomie is the same result. He recognized deviance as important to the well-being of society and proposed that challenges to established moral and legal laws (deviance and crime‚ respectively)

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    include both + & - rewards for conformity and deviance‚ ensuring we behave the way society expects. The inevitability of crime -Functionalists see too much crime as destabilising society; they also see crime as inevitable and universal. They believe that every society has some level of crime and deviance and a crime-free society is a contradiction in terms -Durkheim- views”crime is normal...an integral part of all healthy societies” -Two reasons crime& deviance are found in all societies: *Not everyone

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    it is wrong why do I do it? And am I accepting my own deviant behavior? Throughout this paper I hope to present to you and myself various explanations in which I have personally related to being causes of deviant behavior in today’s society. Deviance is defined as a violation of rules or norms. Deviant behavior usually evokes formal and informal punishment‚ restrictions‚ or other controls of society. These formal and informal controls constrain most people to conform to social norms. Despite

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    Becker noted that deviance is not a quality of the person but it depends on the reaction of others‚ which means that no one is deviant and no action is deviant unless it’s specified by society. Becker criticized other theories of deviance for accepting the existence of deviance and by doing so; accept the values of the majority within the social groups. Becker said "studying the act of the individual is unimportant Labeling Theory 2 because deviance is simply rule breaking behavior

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    That is what structural functionalism is‚ the idea that every part has a role that makes society work. This creates deviance in a society because when someone such as a major business CEO becomes corrupt‚ he may start stealing money. So you have Bill Gates and his company. If his company‚ an operating piece instructional functions‚ starts to steal from america‚ that will create a deviance and start to hurt the society

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    how applying a label to an individual influences their lifestyle‚ and how the social reaction to this label influences the individual. "...social groups create deviance by making rules whose infraction creates deviance‚ and by applying those roles to particular people and labelling them as outsiders. From this point of view‚ deviance is not a quality of the act the person commits‚ but rather a consequence of the application by other of rules and sanctions to an ’offender. ’ The deviant is one

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    Behaviour and Societal Reaction Cullen‚ Francis T. (1984). Rethinking Crime and Deviance Theory: The Emergence of a Structuring Tradition .Totowa‚ N.J Hawkins‚ Richard and Gary Tiedeman. (1975). The Creation of Deviance Interpersonal and Organizational Determinants Goode‚ Erich. (1978). Deviant Behavior: An Interactionist Approach. Englewood Cliffs‚ N.J. : Prentice-Hall. Gove‚ Walter R.‚ editor. (1980). The Labelling of Deviance: Evaluating a Perspective. Beverly Hills‚ Calif Lamb‚ Sharon. (1996). The

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    Howard Becker‚ central fact about deviance is that “it is created by society. Becker does not mean that the causes of deviance can be derived from the social environment of the deviant or the “social factors” that causes an individual to engage in deviant behavior. Rather‚ Becker means that social groups create deviance by creating the rules or norms that must be adhered to and if they are violated—the violation will result in what the group deems as being deviance. Thus‚ the individuals who go against

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    enters a role of sanctioned deviance. Being sick is not a state of fact or condition it is a specifically patterned social role. It compromises of 2 rights and 2 duties. Being sick is not simply a state of fact or condition it contains customary rights and obligations based on social norms thats surround it. Parsons believes that a person who is sick enters a role of sanctioned deviance‚ this is because a sick individual is not a productive member of society. This deviance needs to be policed which

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    Ethics and Social Responsibility Mitchell Askew Business Management Paper 1 2/4/2014 What is ethics and social responsibility and why is it important in the work place. MGMT (2013-2014) workplace deviance‚ ethics: Ethics is the set of moral principles or values that defines right and wrong for a person or group. A Society of human resources management survey found that only 27 percent of employees felt that their organization’s leadership was ethical. In a study of 1‚324 random selected workers

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