Deviance

Deviance is the behaviors that does not conform to basic cultural ad expectations.One example I can use from one my own experience about deviance is that in my culture different people from different families beats their kids from doing something bad or for being disrespectful,it doesn't matter how old you are you will still get hit by your parents.Every society in my culture uses that collective conscience as a norm and belief that treating their kids like this will teach their kids how to live.Another deviance in my culture is that you are able to get married at any age,I never knew that until today I asked my grandma about it and she said they get married at any age.Some people believed it's a secondary deviance because sometimes it ends up in a conflict situation because their are a lot of responsibilities that you will have to attain because most of the time your parents will kick you out,and you have no other choice but to take care of that husband or wife by yourself.Another deviant act is that some people aren't afraid to take naked showers outside where everyone can see them,it actually turns out to be a norm,I chose this as a deviant act because most cultures doesn't do that,only in a bathroom that they will take a naked shower without no one seeing their privacy. Walking around dead bodies in the street is a deviant act in my culture brainwaves someone gets shot on the street other stab and just die on the street,it takes a while for the ambulance or cop to come and pick them up the ground. Most cultures wouldn't leave a dead body on the ground for an amount of time but my culture some people are so use to seeing them on the ground,they walk around it like its nothing.Another deviant act is that My culture has a very high percentage of homeless and poor people,it's starting to be more of a dominant culture because the percentage of homeless and poor people has increased.There are no welfare in Haiti,And the government is not strong enough to help.In a stabilize country like the Unitedstate,the government offers a lot of help.One last deviant act I can use is that you can kill any animal or hit animals on the street,you won't get arrested,and that's a deviant act because it's not accepted in every culture.In the article The positive function of the undeserving poor talks and describe different categories and function of the poor.One of the function is called the three political functions,and it describes the institutional scapegoating and spatial purification. I can also relate this article to chapter eight because it mentioned deviance and stigma.It mention that some of the institutions benefit from undeserving the poor may try to maintain underservingness and it's stigma.