When we speak of deviance, every individual can have a different definition of what deviance is and what it stands for. What I may take offensive, might be element of survival in your community. So to give a more specific definition of deviance, we can refer to a socially disapproved behavior or a violation of a social norm. Not everyonecan say that they would refer to deviance in the same aspect which is shown through …showed first 75 words of 553 total…

…showed last 75 words of 553 total…individual higher. This could because they see violent acts happeninig in everyday life, whereas a person with high economic status, sees events that happen to the economy, or in the “high-society” as more serious. The society “teaches” us that deviance is not acceptable, and to be successful you must at all cost not stray from the path. The deviant act one chooses to participate in shows us how well the acts have internalized the cultures