About this document
Understanding Deviance in Society by Puyatnako is a document available to read on EtoBox.
Deviance refers to acts that violate social norms and can take different forms depending on time, place, and culture. The study of deviance examines why people break laws or norms and how society responds. There are several theories of deviance, including structural functionalism which views deviance as inevitable and serving a purpose by defining norms, and symbolic interactionism which sees deviance as learned through social interactions. Society uses formal controls like laws and informal controls like s
- Author
- Puyatnako
- Language
- EN