Your task for this post is to list the ways in which you were considered "deviant" by the governing cultural norms of behavior. While doing so, you must describe the context, which norms/folkway/more you violated, and how you knew you were deviant (what sanctions were expressed?)
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1) Over the summer i was with my brother who was with his friends. Everyone was smoking an illegal substance except me. They all saw me as acting deviant because to them i was against the norm of smoking for them. Because they all liked the drug but i didn't, i began lecturing them about the side effects (folkway). The sanctions i received were all negative sanctions as they called me names like "pussy".
2) Back in Hong Kong my friend got into a fight with a school mate twice his size. Instinctively i jumped in and hit the guy. This is considered being deviant because in our school fighting was definitely considered breaking a more. Yet again i received a negative sanction of getting a detention.
1) i was in a class and the people i were sitting with never volunteer to answer questions and so i decided to actively participate in class which raised some eyebrows from my peers. [thats not me being bad but it is an example of deviance]
2) During lunch today i decided to break the norms and cut the line. this is an example of deviance because the established protocol is that you wait in line like everyone else.
3) In class we were working on laptops and everyone was actively writing their essay and instead i was playing pac-man through a website. This is deviant behavior because i was doing something i wasn't supposed to be doing. Eventually other people joined me and started playing pac-man so thats an example of the differential association thing.
I guess overall I am deviant from the cultural norm in SAS is the fact that I like Hong Kong Pop music while nobody other than a good few people in school does also. I guess I violated the norm of behavior of listening to American music and discussing about it/enjoying it. I know I am deviant because when people show me their play list in Ipod and ask me if I listen to this guy or that guy, I would say I don't know them. And they would say something like "you suck" or "you have weird taste, Henry". Those would be negative sanctions. I hope this example is a right example of deviant.
1) Back in middle school, when everyone is studying hard for their exam, I chose not to do so because I was lazy. This made me become deviant of my peers. The sanction I received was negative. I violated the folkway in my peer group. And I violated the norm of the school which is to work hard.
2) In middle school again, when everyone is listening and taking note in the class. I decided to play games underneath the table. However, it is interesting that the sanction I received from my peers is positive. Most of them willing to warning me when teachers starting to talking towards my table. Again I violated the norm of the school.
3) Today I fall asleep in English class. I am the only one who falls asleep today so it made me a deviant. The sanction I received is people laughing at me, I can’t decide is this a positive or negative sanction. But again I violate the norm of the school.
1) Here at SAS, it seems like most of the guys play this computer game called "Dota" or another version of it called "World of Warcraft". Oftentimes, I'd find myself amidst a conversation about this computer game, and I always tell them that I don't play this game and that I'm really not at all interested in playing it. I end up drawing negative sanctions as a result of so, which usually consists of them teasing me about not playing the game. As a result, I was seen as deviant through my peers for not accepting their folkway of playing "Dota" every weekend. By refusing to accept the differential association approach in reference to playing the game, I was ultimately seen as a social deviant for not conforming to this particular folkway.
2) At home, my parents are Buddhists and do not believe in the ideals of Christianity. However, I am a Christian and I am seen as a social deviant at home because of my contrary beliefs on religion. I draw negative sanctions from my parents whenever they go to pray at temples by refusing to go along with them, which can be seen as breaking a folkway. Oftentimes, they struggle to give me advice whenever I feel as if I lack faith because they offer me advice related to Buddhism. As a result, turmoil and arguments transpire to create the negative sanctions of my religious deviance.
1) I guess I have skills for metaphysics, I think it is called. For example, when I first saw Haoran last year in psychology class, I saw his stricking similarity with beaver, but nobody else saw it. Similarly when I see people I can usually come up with these cool connections! But when I see these and tell the person, he or she usually gives me negative sanctions, such as "What??" or "you are so weird." So I guss I am breaking the norm of not comming up with these things.
2) Another example of a deviant behavior is more general. Since our school has dress codes, breaking them would be a deviant behavior. For example, when I wore a miniskirt in the middle of cold winter one day, I received negative sanctions, such as "You should dress up more appropriately/warmly" from teachers. In this case, I was breaking the norm(folkway) of dressing up according to weather and more of not wearing miniskirts at all at school.
1) The norm that i deviated from was acting naturally with my dad in fronnt of his korean friends. Most korean adults expect korean adolescents to be quiet, respectful, and obedient when in the presence of adults. In the dinner setting, where wine was served, I casually sat on my dad's lap and drank a sip of wine while asking him where my backpack was in english. As i glanced over to the other adults oposite of us I noticed that they were a bit taken aback thus showing slight negative sanctions. I sort of became embarrased and when back to my room to spare my self of further negative sanctions
2) back in the 7th grade I cheated on my math test. It was multiple choice and a substitute presided over the testing that day. One tap on the desk meant letter "A" and 2 taps meant "B" and so on. Cheating on a test obviously was a major norm violation in the context of school; but the desire to get a good grade and other factors seemed to override this norm. My friend and I didn't get caught but the teacher observed the next day that my friend and I had strikingly similar test scores. He questioned us and we lied but he was always suspicious of my friend and I from the day forward. This suspicion -negative sanction- discouraged me to cheat in the future.
1) When I was a kid, whenever I received a present, I would ask how much did it cost. The reason why I asked this question is because I would choose not to receive that present if it's too expensive. I don't want my uncles and aunts to buy expensive gifts for me. But usually adults think that it's impolite for kids to ask how much a present costs. This is the folkway I violated.And my parents scolded me about being impolite like this. I guess I am different from other kids because other kids would just take the presents and say thank you to the adults.
2)Most of the teenagers (including my friends) like to go out rather than staying at home. But I would prefer to stay at home. The reason is because I feel more comfortable to be alone and relax at my house. Other people may think that's weird because teenagers usually like to go out more. I think this is also a folkway that I violated.
1) As a tall teenager, I generally play pickup basketball with adults in megafit. Many of my friends aren't allowed to play with them, because the adults were "afraid" that they would get hurt because of their smaller size. However when I ask to play, I am given a spot, I receive quite alot of sanctions, both positive such as "good swat, Mike" and negative sanctions such as "we pay 100 RMB to get in and we can't even play?" for being deviant from the rest of my peers.
2) In junior year, I got into a fight with a senior over a superficial issue. After the fight, the guilt inside was eating me up, so I contacted Dr. Borden and confessed to him what I did, this is considered deviant because most other teenage boys, would have just walked away, I had the opportunity to do so but I didn't. This received many negative sanctions from my peers and even the person I fought, he said "man, now they're going to tell my parents" but at the same time, I received some mildly postive sanctions from the adults, "it is very responsible of you to do so"
1) When i was in 6th grade, me and my friends were out shopping at a mall. They decided to steal some clothes from this one store because apparently it was "cool" to do so when i was that age, but i didn't want to. They all saw me being deviant because during the time it was a norm to them. But for me i didn't want to follow up on it. At the time i knew what my parents wanted for me and i was a good kid and did not want to violate folkways and mores my parents once told me about. The sanctions i recieved were negative. They questioned why i didn't and just ignored me later on. When they gathered together to show eachother what they stole, they told me to just shove off and that i do not get a share in what they took.
2) Right now my parents want me to go to college where my sister is at. I do not want to because i know small towns aren't somewhere i'd want to be since i'm very used to cities. This made me seem as a deviant because i am not following upon my parents wishes. When my parents insist i go to my sister's college i refuse and say i don't want to and in doing so i broke a folkway. This brought negative sanctions from my parents towards me.
3) This wasn't about me but one time on a taxi ride i was with a friend at night and he was rathered tipsy. He started to scream and yell at the taxi driver. He broke the folkway of personal space when he tried to disrupt the taxi driver. he was being deviant because i was sober at the time and so was the driver. he was making a fool out of himself completly. He recieved negative sanctions from the driver when he cursed at him in chinese while i did nothing since he was a friend.
1) Back in Korea I hung out with a group of people who were serious smokers. We'd hang out and they would all be smoking and I'd be choking, but I've never even asked to try one. It was a norm for these people to smoke (they were addicts) and often thought my choking was pathetic and I would occasionally receive a negative sanction through a sarcastic remark. I was a deviant in this group because I didn't smoke.
2)In 5th grade I was a deviant because I liked to game rather than read. This broke a lot of norms with the girls because they just couldn't get into gaming and a negative sanction I received was that they didn't want to be around me, thus I ended up with very few friends. Towards the end of the year I found another girl who loved Super Smash Bros and we became best friends and played nearly every weekend. But then she left.
I was a deviant in elementary school because I did not engage in the regular girly activities, thus breaking multiple norms and folkways with my fellow female students.
1) During my time as a freshmen, I likely to skipped classes that I have uninterested or too boring for me. I would sometime go to the library to play computer game or I would leave school with some of my friends to go to downtown while the school is still on. This means that I was breaking the norms of the school rule of participating in class which some of my friend thought it was "bad ass" of what I did. But as the teachers gave me a lot of negative sanctions of my grade is going down, I ignored them. As for the result I was cut off from the varsity wrestling team because my grade was too low.
2)In middle school I have gone through couple of suspension for the action and the behavior of how I acted in school. I did not respect most of my teachers (sometime backed talk to them) and I did get into a fight many times because the group of people that I hang out with values the thought of never back down when someone disrespects you. As I did what I believe was right (fighting and beating some kids) most of my peers gave me some positive sanctions of saying "Good Job" while some of my peers and all the teachers gave me negative sanctions of disappointed look. It's no wonder since I did broke the norms of the school rule multiple time. (Remember this was in middle school)
1) I'm considered a deviant when I attempt to play guitar hero. That's because I'm horrible at it, and everyones expected to at least play a little bit I can't play it at all. I'm breaking their norm of being able to play the songs properly on a guitar. The sanctions I received where all negative. People made fun of me and teased me.
2) Another time i was considered a deviant was when I cut a line in the supermarket. I broke the folkways of respect and waiting for my turn. I received negative sanctions such as coughs and head shakes.
1) when i was in japan over the summer, i first learned that using cellphones on public transportations is violating a folkway in japan. I knew the second i picked up my phone that i was deviant because i got negaive sanctions from the people around me. The negative sanctions were constant stares from all the people and my grandma quicky told me that it is not polite to talk on your cellphone when you are taking public transportations. It made me realize that what i did is not following their value of personal space and politeness.
2)Back when i was in fifth grade, i went to the states to visit my cousins. When i hung out with my cousin and her friends (same age as me), i felt left out in parts of their conversations. Since the difference in cultural norms, they would be talking about 'Nsynic while i have know idea of who or what they were talking about. They asumed that i should know and be able to engage in their conversations but i didn't, therefore i got negative sanctions such as stares and gasps because i was being deviant.
1) When I was in 5th grade I threw a rock through a school window. This was considered deviant by the governing culture of the school because it violated the values, norms and mores of the school. They considered it vandalism and an act of violence and gave me very strong negative sanctions. I had to pay 200$ for the window, could not go to recess for 2 weeks, write an apology letter and had to have many talks with the principal. This shows that I violated a more of the school because I was punished so harshly. Also because of the strong negative sanctions I know that this was a deviant behavior.
2) Today in the library I was sitting quietly while holding a balloon. One librarian who will remain unnamed came by and told me to "get rid of the balloon" or I would have to leave the library. This warning or negative sanction indicated that I had violated some folkway of the library that was unknown to me and also showed that this was a deviant behavior.
1. I am considered a deviant when I was in Taiwan over this winter break. That is because all the high school kid should be in school that time, Taiwanese winter break is during the Chinese New Year not the Christmas. I was breaking the norm that students should be in school that time. I think most of the sanctions I received was negative, when I was shopping on the street, people think I am some random bad kid who skip school, people always ask me why I don’t have to go to school and I always need to explain the reason to people again and again.
2. Another time I was considered a deviant was when I was eating dinner with my father’s friend. We were in this lounge bar where only adults ( >18) can go, but because that was my dad’s friends bar they allows me to go in. I was breaking the norms that it is the place kids should not be in. I received all the negative sanctions from the other tables, all the people thinks I shouldn’t be there and I became sort of embarrassed.
1)During the first semester of tenth grade, which was when I first moved out of the country, everybody on the weekend would going to a bar and smoke. Even all the athletes would go and do this and I refused because i was afraid i wouldn't be able to run anymore. To my peers I was being deviant because I didn't follow the crowd negative sanction were name calling and me not being to hang out out with the group on Saturday nights.
2) Another instance of me being deviant was back in Georgia when my friend wanted to jump a guy for stuff he said to him. I didn't want to because he didn't do anything to me personally. I was deviant because i wasn't considered to be loyal to my friend. Negative Sanctions were bad looks from other people we both knew.
wow you guys. Really good responses. It's clear you all understand the concept of DEVIANCE, and I sincerely appreciate your honesty and candidness.
Your stories are great in that they're real and relevant.
My question would be, in which cases did you KNOW you were being deviant, and in which cases did you DISCOVER you were being deviant due to the sanctions received?
1) Once during sixth grade when “Chatting Room” online was popular (where you get into a chatting room online and sometimes meet strangers), my friends and I logged in and chatted with this stranger guy. When he asked my number we gave him the number of a girl we didn’t like and we laughed about it. We were deviant because obviously 1) as sixth graders, we weren’t even supposed to go into chatting room and meeting strangers; 2) after this girl and teacher eventually found out we did that, we still lied about it. So later I felt bad since I thought the teacher no longer trusted us that much. She didn’t really punish us but we always felt guilty and lost some friends who trusted us. I know we were being deviant because it was against the rule (lying and making fun of friend).
2) Once I went clubbing but didn’t drink tequila shot after entering, my friends half-forced me to drink one shot. Apparently it was their ‘tradition’. I was deviant because I didn’t drink the shot immediately after getting in the club. They didn’t really give me negative sanction but they eventually forced me to conform with them because I felt awkward not to do it. I discovered I was deviant in that situation.
3) This isn’t an example of me being deviant but my friends. Sometimes a group of us would talk about planning to go partying. People who say they can’t, they have never been to, or don’t want to are sometimes laughed at being “losers” or “boring”. Even though we don’t dislike them at all and I personally wouldn’t completely judge people just because they don’t go clubbing, sometimes we subconsciously mock them. This would be negative sanction for them because they are viewed as not fun and not cool. They are also excluded from some of the conversations we have. Since so many people go clubbing here, it is deviant not to go. However, in other societies it may be the opposite.
1. Once when I was with my friends in America, they started to do drugs. I tried to force them not to by telling them over and over again about the effects of drugs, but because I was acting deviant, they sent me negative sanctions. Therefore, I ditched them and the clique that I was previously apart of.
2. One time in class, I saw 2 classmates on facebook which was not allowed. I told them to get off, but because I was acting all deviant, they said, "Piss off dude, seriously."
1. This one time, I was wearing sunglasses and hanging out with my friends, and it got dark outside as we were hanging out. However, I kept my wearing sunglasses even through the night. I was considered deviant by my friends and as a result I received negative sanctions like "you look foolish" etc. I did realize that this was deviant behavior, but I was too lazy to hold on to them.
2. This one time when I was a kid I was watching a wine tasting show on TV. Then at dinner I did the thing where they swish the wine around in their mouth and spit it out, except I did it with sprite. Apparently my mom didn't think it was amusing and she got mad at me because she said it was rude. This was considered deviant behavior to my parents and as a result, I got in trouble which is a negative sanction. At the time, I didn't know this was deviant behavior.
1)9th grade in america, i went to a huge party where everyone was seriously drunk except me when i arrived. All my friends were suddenly into drinking, but for some reason, were against smoking. the guys were acting stupid and the girls were acting whorish and for some reason a whole group of them started to cry. I didn't drink that night... american high school really turned me off about drinking because people there are so lame about it. a lot of the juniors and seniors even drove drunk home. i was going against the high school norm of partying... unlike most of them, i didn't think being drunk made you cool. Ironically, the kids who drink think they are social deviants when in fact, they are very much part of the mainstream drug culture in youth society.
2. I guess i would consider my interest in punk music a bit deviant. i wouldn't consider myself a punk at all but i love the music- it makes so much sense to me. Ever since 7th grade when my friend really got me into the clash, it just went on from there where now like over a third of my music is punk, ska, hardcore 80s, irish punk, 90s, 70s... reggae punk, folk punk, straight edge, ext... i have books, friends that are in punk bands... in this case i'm going against the social norms of not just music taste because most people dont really like punk music, but gender linked music taste... girls dont typically like punk music.
1. Over winter break me and a friend decided to tip a 6 foot heavy Christmas ornament in a public place. After we tipped it, cops came running after us and lectured us and made us tip it upright again. This was deviance because society, especially via formal social control, issued negative sanctions by making us place the ornament upright. Sanctions were also issued via informal social control when people around us gave us stares and gossiped about us.
2. When doing math homework, failing to find an answer to a problem can be very frustrating. Thinking I was alone, I shouted a profane word. Unknown to me, my mother was right behind me. This is deviance because it is a social norm that I should speak in a sophisticated fashion while in my house. I recieved a negative sanction when I was lectured by my mother about word choice.
1) This summer when i was at the USA cup soccer tournament in Minnesota with my soccer team, my whole entire soccer team stayed at my coaches house. We really didn't have much to do except watch movies and play pool when we weren't playing soccer, and while everyone on the team was doing that, i decided to talk to my girlfriend on the phone a decent amount. I was the only one talking to his girlfriend on the phone most of the time, but I never really thought of myself as acting deviantly, i just did it because i wanted to. I realized I was acting deviantly when my teammates gave me negative sanctions, such as calling me "whipped." It was then that i realized i was breaking the norm of hanging out with the team when we weren't playing or practicing.
2) When I was younger, in elementary school, I dyed my hair a few times. I dyed it blonde 3 or 4 times and red twice. Most kids my age, especially boys, did not really dye their hair. I don't really know why I did it, but I now think that it was because my older brother did it. However, at the time I did realize that I was acting differently from everyone else, but it didn't bother me. I never really got negative sanctions from doing it either. Breaking the norm of having natural hair color did not occur to me since I was so young and I never had anything bad come from it. It was just different to dye your hair and I knew that.
3) Another deviant time of my life also had to do with my hair. In middle school I grew my hair out really long. It got down past my shoulders and stayed that long for a while. Long hair was not really normal for guys in my school and I most definitely had the longest hair out of all the guys in my grade, which in my old school was probably over 200 guys. It was a little more common to see in hockey players, which I feel was my main reason for doing it since I was playing a lot of hockey at the time. My dad really hated it, but that didn't bother me. I knew I was being deviant, and I was negatively sanctioned often from peers at my school, but that didn't bother me very much either. Short hair was more popular by far, yet I enjoyed having long hair no matter how different it was.
4) When I was very young and was starting to play hockey, during my third season of hockey I took a strong liking for playing in goal. This was very different from the norm because, at that age especially, everybody wanted to skate out and score goals and what not. It was extremely hard to find kids that wanted to play goalie at that age, but after I played in goal a few times I quickly found that I was better at it than most kids and that I enjoyed playing there better. My fourth season of hockey I played in goal the whole season and continued to ever since. Obviously it became a more common position as I got older, but at a young age it was not common at all to play in goal every game. I once again knew it was different than normal, but i didn't care because I enjoyed the position much more and have loved it ever since.
1. I do not have a facebook account. This is considered deviant in that a majority of teenagers in SAS use facebook, but I myself believed that facebook would cause me a lot of problems. This in turn received some negative sanctions from friends, including raising questions about why I don't have a facebook account, and asking me to get a facebook account. Others who read this may also give me negative sanctions and question me. This situation violated a norm of most teenagers who go online for social networking.
2. I don't say swear words. This has caused a negative reaction from one of my classmates in flex. When I told him that I don't say swear words, he said that it's okay to say swear words, even to the extent where he tries (forcibly) to have me say a swear word. This is considered deviant for me because I was different from all teenagers who say swear words at one point in their life, thus violating a norm.
1. A couple of years ago i got a tattoo at the age of 15 even though i wasnt allowed. My mom saw me as deviant once she found out since i was specifically told that tattoos are ugly and that no daughter of hers would get one. and i was acting deviant towards the tatoo artist since i lied and said that i was 18 when in reality i was underage and shouldnt have even been in the store. The folkway us that "good girls" dont get tattoos and good daughters dont lie to their mother.
2. In science class two years ago i was texting my back then boyfriend at the time which was deviant since phones are meant to be turned off during school ours and because i wasnt paying attention during class.
3. I had flex yesterday and i was really hungry so i cut infront of the middle schoolers in the lunch line. i was deviant since i am no special then anyone else and should have waited in the line patiently.
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