The Impact of Deviance in America’s Society

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what is considered deviant in one time and place maybe irrelevant in another. Take fighting as an example, which is normally considered deviant in a typical society, fighting during a hockey game and fighting in a school class room get two completely different reactions.

Many factors have to be considered when talking about deviance, and it is something that changes constantly. The purpose of this proposed study is to examine how deviance effects society and the factors that come into play when different reactions and consequences occur when the social “norm” is broken.

Primary Research Questions:

- How does culture (race, gender, age,) play a role in how deviance is seen

- How are morals tied in with deviance and how is it used to determine what is the social “norm”

- What is the social norm, and how does it change periodically

Methods

Data:

Data will be collected from the different situations we input in different environments, Such as college campus, and ...

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