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Theories of Deviance
Theories of Deviance
Brief History of Discourse of Deviance
History of Discourse of Deviance
Before the study of deviance became what it is today, there were both non-academic and academic approaches to understanding deviance/ deviant behavior.
Religious Explanation of Deviance
Religion
The institution of religion would define deviant behavior in supernatural/ other worldly language that would account for deviant/ deviant behavior.
Possessions
The devil sends demons to
posses people who engage
in violating God's law. It clearly defines moral behavior from immoral behavior.
Evil Spirits
Dante's Divine Comedy
Connecting Deviance to biology
Biology and Deviant Behavior
This kind of discourse correlates deviance to biology--brain size, body type, and with the development of genetic coding, genes are attributed to deviance/ deviant behavior.
Lombroso
DOB: 6 November 1835
DOD: 19 October 1909
Cesare Lombroso
Italian criminologist, physician , and founder of the Italian School of Positivist Criminology
Facial Features
Frued
DOB: 6 May 1856
DOD: 23 September 1939
Frued
Founder of psychoanalysis,
Influenctial ideas: Psychoanalysis, Dream Interpretation, Oedipal Complex, and Electra Complex. Id, Ego, Super-ego.
Ecological Fallacy
An ecological fallacy is a fallacy in the interpretation of statistical data where inferences are made about the nature of individuals are deduced from inference for the group to which those individuals belong. Ecological fallacy sometimes refers to the fallacy of division.
Sociological Analysis
Why do blacks commit more crime, The Rationalist
Statistics
Spurious
Is a faulty logic based on inaccurate, or partial data, information, and observations.
Examples: Blacks are inherently criminals.
People with small skulls are
criminals, because they have a
small brain cavity.
Emile Durkheim
DOB: Apr 15, 1858
DOD: November 15, 1917
Sociologist
Work: The Division of Labor, Suicide, Elementary Forms of Religious Life, Methods of Sociological Research
Robert Merton
DOB: July 04, 1910
DOD: February 23, 2003
Merton
“A cardinal American virtue, 'ambition,' promotes a cardinal American vice, 'deviant behavior.'”