User:Ejv1768

Erin Varga's user page. Created for SOCIOLOGY-101 Wikipedia editing project (Welser, Howard).

User editing background on Wikipedia:

-Edited the Wikipedia page Deviance (Sociology). On this page I edited under the section "Deviance as a violation of social norms". I added this paragraph to the section: "Deviance can be described as a violation of these norms. Deviance is a failure to conform with culturally reinforced norms. This definition can be interpreted in many different ways though. Social norms are different in one culture as opposed to another though. For example, a deviant act can be committed in one society or culture that breaks a social norm there, but may be considered normal for another culture and society. Some acts of deviance may be criminal acts, but also, according to the society or culture, deviance can be strictly breaking social norms that are intact."

The next section that I edited and added to on this page was "Biological Theories of Deviance". I actually broke the "Other Theories" section into two different parts (one being the new "Biological Theories of Deviance"). I left the rest of the "Other Theories" section alone and added and edited only the "Biological Theories of Deviance". I edited some and added in the following: "From his research, Lombroso took Darwin's Theory and looked at primitive times himself in regards to deviant behaivors. He found that the skeletons that he studied mostly had low foreheads and protruding jaws. These characteristics resembled primitive beings such as Homo Neanderthalensis. He stated that little could be done to cure born criminals because their characteristics were biologically inherited. Over time, most of his research was disproved. His research was refuted by Pearson and Charles Goring. They discovered that Lombroso had not researched enough skeletons to make his research thorough enough. When Pearson and Goring researched skeletons on their own they tested many more and found that the bone structure had no relevance in deviant behavior. The statistical study that Charles Goring published on this research is called "The English Convict". "The English Convict"[13]" The final section that I edited was under the Control Theory, having to do with Gottfredson and Hirschi. I added this to the section: "Hirschi worked with this idea of a General Theory of Crime with his partner Michael R. Gottfredson. Gottfredson and Hirschi in 1990 founded their Self-Control Theory. It stated that acts of force and fraud are undertaken in the pursuit of self interest and self control. A deviant act is based on a criminals own self control of themselves. Gottfredson and Hirschi's General Theory of Crime"

I also added a reference at the end of this article and put in two HTML links throughout my additions.