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a. Descibe and example of a television program that you believe clearly displays social deviance, and explain why you specifically selected it?
b.The television program how are people labeled as socially deviating from the expected social norms and who does the labeling?
c. Analyze the deviance, using terms such as primary deviance, secondary deviance, retrospective labeling, and stigma
d. Apply Durkheim's four functions of deviance to the deviant actions in the television program. What purpose(s) does the deviance play?

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100 words of brainstorming briefly articulates some examples of social deviance within the popular American reality show, "Survivor." The 2016 season is used as a model.

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a. Describe and example of a television program that you believe clearly displays social deviance, and explain why you specifically selected it?

The reality show, "Survivor" displays social deviance, as the whole cunning and materialistic nature of the game and its objectives cause participants to engage in deviance, such as lying, stealing, and blind-siding each other, which all exemplify evident violations of social norms, such as hiding and lying about possessing idols, etc.

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