What Is The Mystification Of Social Deviance?

After reading all four articles, it has come to my attention that deviant behavior is everywhere in our society, and all around the world. Different cultures have different norms and morals making things we believe are normal, deviant. Deviance can be seen in everything, sexual intercourse, rock n roll, and even so much as technology. In reading one, Body Rituals Among the Nacirema, since this is my second time reading this article this year I have a clear understanding of what the Nacirema tribe believes to be deviant and how they seek to get the deviance out of their daily lives. This community believes that their bodies are deviant, hence men and women would visit a godly like medicine man to perform what we would consider as deviant medical

The relativist view is not used as much as absolutist hence, the relativist views deviance as an individual aspect other than a community aspect. In other terms the relativist view states that the individual creates their own deviant behavior rather than the community creating what is deviant socially. The absolutist view is used the most in society. The absolutist view states that the more people in the community who agree on the basic goals that should be pursued, the more peace or harmony society would create. On the other hand, this reading interest me because Erich Goode states that the euphoric feeling that drugs give people is an artificial sense of pleasure, he also explains that if people smoke pot for pure pleasure and fun, what keeps them from trying harder drugs such as heroin or cocaine. Goode also states that Russian teenagers look at sexual intercourse almost as Americans look at drugs. Russian teenagers believe that sexual intercourse is for fun and pleasure, and eventually call it a necessity rather than

Before the 1950’s theorists focused on what the difference was between deviants and criminals from “normal” citizens. In the 1950’s researchers were more involved exploring meaning and reasons behind deviant acts. This led to the most dominant question in the field of deviance, “what is the structural and culture factors that lead to deviant behavior?” This question is important when studying deviance because there is no clear answer, everyone sees deviance in different ways, and how deviance is created. Short and Meier states that in the 1960’s there was another shift in focus on the subject of deviance. The focus was what causes deviance, the study of reactions to deviance, and the study of rule breaking and rule making. In the 1960’s society was starting to speak out on what they believed should be a rule and what should not; this movement create chaos in the streets. However, it gave us a glimpse into what makes people become deviant, in the case it was the Vietnam War and the government. Short and Meier also write about the three levels that might help us understand were deviance comes from and how people interact to deviance. The first is the micro level, which emphasizes individual characteristics by biological, psychological, and social sciences. The second level is macrosociological that explains culture and