Deviance and Social Control Report

The American society is one that accepts people for being unique and different. It embraces independence and individuality, it allows all people to speak their minds, believe in a cause or even have pink hair! Yet behind this curtain there still exists a set of rules that people believe in, and expect to be followed by all in general. The degree of these laws is spread out across a broad spectrum. They can be something …

…I agree with William Graham Sumner who distinguished norms into two groups of customary and routine ways of life like the way we dress, look, eat and speak to one another- folkways, and essential concepts for livelihood like privacy, freedom and rights- mores. (Ferrante, Pg: 209-210). Based on the materials I read about deviance and the experiment I had on eating habits I understand that deviance plays a very important part in all our lives.