what factor is the most important cause of deviance?

Answer 1

The biopsychosocial model posits that biological, psychological and social factors all play a significant role in human functioning, including in mental processes. The model is used in fields such as medicine, psychology and sociology, and in more specialist fields such as psychiatry and clinical psychology. In medicine, it is a way of looking at the mind and body of a patient as two important systems that are interlinked. The biopsychosocial model is also a technical term for the popular concept of the mind-body connection. This is in contrast to the traditional biomedical model of medicine.

The model was developed by psychiatrist George Engel at the University of Rochester, and first published in a 1977 article in Science

Answer 2

In a word degree. One goes from normal, to abnormal, to deviant based on the escalation (or degree) of a particular behavior. For example: a husband and wife are having a discussion about finances in which she thinks they could spend a little more, while he thinks they should be saving as much as possible. Each calmly presents his/her reasons, but respects the other's position throughout. Normal
The behavior escalates, each is shouting over the other, showing no respect, not hearing anything the other is saying. Name calling may occur, and the decibel level increases which may cause the neighbors to call the police. The behavior has reached an abnormal level.
Next, the couple begins hurling crockery at one another, with the intention of doing bodily harm. Then hitting and kicking starts and may involve implements of destruction like knives or guns if they are available. Clearly the behavior has reached the deviant level.
I spent a year working on my college senior project which was original research. The study was titled How subjective feeling of abnormal behavior and deviancy effect actual behavior.
I hope this helps you.

Answer 3

I'm assuming you are talking about the sexual variety.

The surveys will probably say "fear of intimacy," but what causes that? Probably many things from early childhood.

I have a hunch that the painful withdrawal of an important figure early in life causes the fear of intimacy that results in misplaced eroticism. It's probably a mechanism for dealing with that pain, like a pacifier for the rather-be breast feeder.

There are probably other traumatic causes, or perhaps something related to forms of introversion, caused or inherited. Sounds a bit like an exam question, no?

Answer 4

Diversity within a population that has much in common otherwise.

Answer 5

Control.............of one's actions. Right or wrong, good or bad. It's a reaction to event, environment, person, etc.