Heya. I finishing an abstract and as usually I simply cannot proofread my own stuff. I would be very grateful if somebody could have a look:
The common sense understanding suggests that deviance is an undesirable action aimed to disturb social order. We tend to connotate deviance with crime or negative abnormality. However, from sociological point of view deviance is a violation of all kinds of social rules. Therefore, deviance is defined as a non-confirmity to given cultural norms and rules. In this context a mentally retarded person and a cold blooded murderer both gain the same status of deviants. By questioning the sociological definition an important question of what actually constitutes a deviant action arises. The idea that actions may be cathegorized as deviant and non-deviant strikes as a simplification which we are going to examine. We will also focus on how deviance is recognised and labeled and in what ways this recogniction affects an individual.
2006-12-03
23:54:09
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Juta K
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➔ Sociology