Talk:Deviant behavior

To do

 * Information on more theorists.
 * Cleaning up, adding more information on the discourse on the functions of deviance.
 * For the "types of deviance" section, there is information from the Social Deviance Wikibook.
 * Possibly shortening the description of theories in the three schools in order to streamline the article, so that people can get a general sense and then study further by clicking on links. Boneheadmx 08:56, 28 February 2006 (UTC)


 * Provide info on how "deviant" has been used prejoritive term for those who behavior, especially sexual behavior, some disapproves of, such as homosexuals. Compare with "pervert". --Cab88 15:21, 8 July 2006 (UTC)

Subcultures really deviant?
I disagree with the listing of several subcultures as deviant. Deviance requires violation of cultural norms; however, in a subculture there's a conformity to a smaller culture but a culture nevertheless, hence I don't see why it would be categorized as such. Sarge Baldy 00:18, Oct 7, 2004 (UTC)

I'm confused why labelling deviancy: "Encourages social change" Don't you mean discourages social change? Johnflux 22:11, 9 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Deviancy encourages social change because subcultures produce deviance. Since the mainstream of a society accepts and values the cultural beliefs most accept and value, all other cultural beliefs would be considered deviant, which in turn produce subcultures. To answer why deviance encourages change, its because within these same subcultures, there are activists (i.e. political, social, human, etc.) that bring distoration, or better yet, a disruption of the status quo by influencing others from the ideal cultural beliefs. If these "social groups" (activists) have enough of a dramatic influence (encouragement), there will be change.

Merge
Should this page be merged with Sociology of deviance?--ColdFeet 07:46, 19 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Merge
I'm not sure why the' above text has been crossed out, but I agree that this should be merged with sociology of deviance.--(unsigned)

Note made later by another user: all the "crossing out" was because of a (probably misplaced) unclosed tag which I turned off. --starfarmer 02:09, 10 November 2007 (UTC)

Fleshing Out
That article could still use some fleshing out, but at least it has the basic theories covered. ' --(unsigned)

Meaning not clear...typo?
At the end of the last paragraph of the first section it says: The Italian School is a criminological school that studies the biological factors which may contribute to crime and deviance. Syafriwaldi, Criminology I looked up "Syafriwaldi" on Google and didn't come up with anything that made sense; I had assumed that it was a reference that hadn't been properly bracketed.

Anyone got a clue on this? If not, we should probably delete it. --starfarmer 02:09, 10 November 2007 (UTC)

Merger to Deviance (sociology)
This article and Sociology of deviance substantially duplicate each other. I propose that they be merged into a common article Deviance (sociology). Madcoverboy 03:17, 3 December 2007 (UTC)