CHAPTER 1. On the Sociology of Deviance, Erikson

The Four Functions of Deviance:

1. Cohesion, Solidarity, & Integration

2. Boundary Maintenance/Definition

3. Social Change

4. Full Employment

Three Ways that Institutions Perpetuate Deviance  

1. Gather marginal people into groups

2. Teach them the skills and attitudes of a deviant career

3. Reinforce alienation from society

Individual Concepts:

Commitment Ceremonies

Self-fulfilling Prophesies

Defining Deviance Up

Defining Deviance Down

Ch. 2: Heckert and Heckert

An Integrated Typology of Deviance Applied to Ten Middle-Class Norms

 ~Integrating Normative and Reactivist Definitions of Deviance

4 Types of Deviance

1. Negative Deviance

2. Rate Busting

3. Deviance Admiration

4. Positive Deviance

~An Integrated Typology of Deviance Applied to Ten Middle-Class Norms

1. Loyalty

2. Privacy

3. Prudence

4. Conventionality

5. Responsibility

6. Participation

7. Moderation

8. Honesty

9. Peacefulness

10. Courtesy

Each of these types of deviance applied to these 10 norms:

Negative Deviance:

- Group Loyalty/Apostasy 

-  Privacy/Intrusion

- Prudence/Indiscretion 

- Conventionality/Bizarreness

- Responsibility/Irresponsibility

- Participation/Alienation 

- Moderation/Hedonism

- Honesty/Deceitfulness

- Peacefulness/Disruption 

- Courtesy/Uncouthness

Rate Busting:

- Group Loyalty/Fanatism

- Privacy/Seclusion

- Prudence/Puritanism

- Conventionality/Provincialism

-  Responsibility/Priggishness

- Participation/Dependence

-  Moderation/Asceticism

- Honesty/Tactlessness

- Peacefulness/Wimpishness

- Courtesy/Obsequiousness

Deviance Admiration:

- Group Loyalty/Rebellion

- Privacy/Investigation

- Prudence/Exhibitionism

- Conventionality/Faddishness

- Responsibility/Adventurousness

- Participation/Independence

- Moderation/Rougishness

-  Honesty/Tactlessness

-  Peacefulness/Revelry

- Courtesy/Irreverence

Positive Deviance:

- Group Loyalty/Altruism

- Privacy/Circumspection

-  Prudence/Discretion

- Conventionality/Properness

- Responsibility/Hyperresponsibility

- Participation/Cooperation

- Moderation/Temperence

- Honesty/Forthrightness

- Peacefulness/Pacifism

- Courtesy/Gentility

CHAPTER 3. Becker, Relativism: Labeling Theory

Three Variations in why People respond to Deviance Differently

1. Variation over time 

2. Who commits it/who feels harmed by it

3. Variations in consequences

CHAPTER 4: The Morality of Deviance; Anne Hendershott

Absolutist Perspective:

1. Universally defined over time (at all times)

2. Universally applied in all places

3. Arise from objective sources such as nature or God

Four Elements of a Moral Definition of Deviance

1. Cultural Relativisim

2. Moral Order

3. Moral Boundaries

4. Moral Consensus

Independent Concepts:

Christian Man

Psychological Man