Essays on Deviance

The social reaction or labelling theory focuses on the negative linguistic characterisation or tendency embraced by a majority group to a minority group based on the deviance from social norms. According to the theory, self-identity, as well as the behaviours of individuals, may be influenced or determined by the perspective...

Crime and its Socioeconomic and Political Gains Crime and criminal related activities have dominated the socioeconomic and political atmosphere since man became in existence. Adverse policies have been formulated and implemented, to include capital offenses, but the vice proves dominant. Even though the society associates crime with negative connotations, they have...

Interactionalism and the Halo Effect Interactionalism is a theoretical perspective that uses human interaction to derive social processes; the halo effect is a cognitive bias where ambiguous judgment is deduced from concrete information. Chambliss uses the theories to analyze different experiences of the saints and the roughnecks in accordance with the...

Control balance theory (CBT) is a practice of deviant behavior established by Charles Tittle. Tittle’s theory is rooted in the social control perspective and it integrates strands of labelling and social learning. Rather than viewing criminality in the perspective of lack of self-control, Tittle’s central concept explains criminality in a...

Defined in sociology as behavior or activities, such as crime, that violate social rules and norms, deviation is a subject that sociologists have researched in depth for many years. Deviance is the propensity to depart from social norms, which are the typical behaviors that members of society are expected to...