Becker View Of Deviance

Becker uses the definition of the word deviance, the question that is typically asked as an outsider is why do they do it? That being said what leads these individuals to do “forbidden things” as Becker said. Nobody questions the concept of the word deviant, in other words they overlook it. Becker questions the word deviance and wonders who is deciding the process of the word deviance and who decides it and how they decide it. The first argument of the view of deviance is a statistical definition of the word deviance, that anything that is statistical. The second definition is the pathological deviance a metaphor for an illness, a disease, it is hard to know what a healthy behavior is or what is a sick behavior as Becker try to prove, he says

this is not useful. The third definition is the realistic, is nothing that is deviance in the act it is how society accepts it, if you do something and the society doesn’t accept, it then referred to deviance. Becker uses the example social groups as if social group created deviance by making rules and by using those rules to label individuals as an outsider. The final question that Becker ask is who makes the rules? He says that its always about power for example how the rick people make rules for the poor. There are rules by society and if you break it you are a deviance.