Introduction to Sociology/Deviance/Ina Woo


Deviance is innate or acquired?


1.
Deviance is an act contrary to general norms or expectations.
In Sociology or Social psychology, Deviance refers primarily to delinquency or criminal acts that violate laws and institutions. But, In a broad sense, sometimes it includes odd behavior including drug dependence or psychosis.
Through education, human learn central norms of society that they live and learn how to follow that norms.
But at the same time, desires or actions of individuals are regulated by social norms.
These regulations conflict with individuals, conflicting with moral insecurity, law-abiding beliefs, and cultural standards. As a result, deviant behavior occurs.


2.
Usually, deviant behavior refers to sociological behavior learned from sociological (or sociopolitical) perspectives, not the biological (or psychophysical) perspective of heredity or unbalance of personality. Some scholars, however, are studying the deviation from biological perspectives.
Scholars who study deviations from biological positions argue that deviant behavior differ from biological aspects such as human physical appearance or chromosome types.
Scholars who study deviation from sociological perspectives argue that personal factors ,such as psychological aspects, and social conditions or social structures cause deviation.


3.
 Different societies have different standards of deviation, and that is ambiguous.
In other words, deviant behavior has the relativity and is highly influenced by sociological aspects.
Hence, the claim that deviation is caused by biological factors is insufficient. And the deviation is an acquired one.


















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