Deviance describes actions or behaviors that violate cultural norms including formally-enacted rules (e.g., crime) as well as informal violations of social norms (e.g., nose-picking). It is the remit of sociologists, psychologists, and criminologists to study how these norms are created; how they change over time; and how they are enforced.
The sociology of deviance involves a number of theorems that seek to accurately describe trends and pattern...
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Deviance describes actions or behaviors that violate cultural norms including formally-enacted rules (e.g., crime) as well as informal violations of social norms (e.g., nose-picking). It is the remit of sociologists, psychologists, and criminologists to study how these norms are created; how they change over time; and how they are enforced.
The sociology of deviance involves a number of theorems that seek to accurately describe trends and patterns that lie within social deviance, to help better understand societal behaviour. There are three broad sociological classes describing deviant behaviour: structural functionalism; symbolic interactionism; and conflict theory.
Social integration is the attachment to groups and institutions, while social regulation is the adherence to the norms and values of the society. Those who are very integrated fall under the category of "altruism" and those who are very unintegrated fall under "egoism." Similarly, those who are very regulated fall under ...
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