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Key knowledge:
What deviance is and how it is defined
What social norms are
What devinace looks like in our lives
Key Skills:
define key sociological concepts and use them appropriately
What does deviance actually mean?
What does deviance actually mean?
Add these definitions to your glossary! If you find these defintions hard to understand please reword them!
Deviance: Deviance refers to actions considered to be outside a society's understood and accepted standards of behaviour, or, more formally, the violation of social norms.
Social Norms: Social norms are shared expectations or rules for behaviour within a particular social group or culture.
Deviance is ever changing!
Deviance is ever changing!
When thinking about deviance it is crucial to think about where you are and when you are!
Consider this, at school an accepted social norm is to raise your hand to ask a question or respond to a prompt and anyone who doesnt follow this norm is considered being a devaint.
However, think about raising your hand in almost any other context, then you more often then not, would be deviant.
Deviance isn't a straught line where actions are independent from situation and time, it is completely defined by where you are and when you're doing it.
Non-Conformists
Non-Conformists
Non-Comformists are people who do not comply with the general norms set out by society.
Non conformity isn't always a negative thing, much like deviance itself. Deviance isnt inherently a bad thing its just an action with goes beyond the usual societal norms.
Think about Greta Thunberg who inspired a 'School Strike for Climate'. This is a deviant act as she was only 15 in 2018 when she began publicaly challenging the established governments surrounding climate change action, or their inaction.
Todays Activities to Complete:
Ensure you have defintions for Deviance, Social Norms and Non-Conformists in your notes.
Complete Activity A on page 113 of the textbook.
Complete question 1 from page 149 Revision Questions
Outline and describe 5 unique enviroments and their own social norms and hence the actions in which might be labelled as deviant. Think of the previous school example and raising your hand.
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