Deviance
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Consider the concept of deviance. How do sociologists view the concept of deviance? Identify a behavior that would be considered deviant. How the behavior violate the standards of conduct or expectations of a group or society? Does society define deviance?
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Sociology views deviance as any deviation in behavior that is unacceptable to the societal norm. In other words, deviance is behavior that most of the society one lives in, would not approve of. A good example of how much this varies dependent on the society is (this came from one of my sociology/psychology professors) killing and eating the tourist. In our society in the U.S., this is unacceptable, especially if the tourist is human. However, in a ...
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