Wednesday, April 20, 2011

Deviance

During the week we have been talking about deviance. When you don't give much knowledge or thought to the word you think of it in a negative aspect. But deviance doesn't have to be negative. Deviance is simply differing from a norm or from the accepted standards of a society. This could be a good thing at times and that is why we did the experiment where we had to try to violate a norm in a positive way. For example, for my experiment I washed the dinner dishes. I never wash everyone dashes, I hate it. Normally I wash just my own dashes if the sink is empty. I knew I had to do something different then I normally don't do so after I was done eating, I started washing the dishes. My mom looked surprised but she didn't say anything. I think it was because she was afraid if she did I would stop washing the dishes. Afterwords she did say thank you but that was all. It was kind of funny how normal is acted. I felt kind of good afterwords.

3 comments:

  1. I agree deviance can be a good thing as well, and yeah it's weird at first not normally doing something you wouldn't do but it can make you feel good about helping out.

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  2. I am agree with you that deviance can be a good thing but people just thought differently about this things. When you do something that you never did before it is kind a awkward for others. That happens to you like you wash dishes. But overall you did good job.

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  3. I agree. Deviance doesn't always have to be negative. You should continue to do that.

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