7. Deviance

Society and Deviance

1.      Last week in my bio class one of the student was Chewing gum in a class and snapping it loudly while the teacher was giving the lecture, I take it as one of the many everyday deviant act, she was breaking the norm of discipline.

2.      One of the deviant acts that I did was taking my mom’s pain killer without asking her and gave it to one of my friend who needed it I could say this was an example of primary deviance. I used to work in a doctor’s office, there were many patients who always wanted extra prescriptions, and they kept asking for more and more refills even when they have been already treated for the problem this is an example of medicalization deviance.  

3.      I have been into a house that was really dirty, you could smell some weird and dirty smells and everything else was a mess, but the people living in that house had no problem with that even though they seems clean when you look at them individually. Keeping your house really dirty and leaving the garbage around the house for too long could also be an everyday example of the deviance act.

4.      Not holding the door for the person right behind you, also not giving up the seat to disabled on subway and buses.

5.      Engaging in a sexual activity with a corpse could be related to loner deviance.

6.      Driving into the emergency lane without any emergency and just because of the traffic.

7.      Cheating on someone who is really close to you, like your best friend or boy/girl friend.

 

 

“Positive functions of the underserving poor” by Herbert J. explains the thirteen functions of the undeserving poor people. This article gave us the clear image, of how society treats and uses the poor people when needed, and then ignores them after their work has been done. How people look down at these poor people and show their hatred towards them. Society and people in power use poor for their own benefit they hire them on under-paying salaries. This whole act of society stigmatizes poor people. We label poor people as a bad impression of our society but we never really think that it’s the richer who gets richer and uses poor for their own good and then make them look bad in front of the society by blaming them the poor.