deviant behaviour

Deviant behaviour has always been a popular topic for ethnographic research.

Roads offer individual drivers too much freedom for dangerous and deviant behaviour.

Discussion question: Do you think deviant behaviour is due to birth or to upbringing?

He also wrote she engaged in deviant behaviour with "wandering Bábís".

Her deviant behaviour and promiscuous lifestyle scandalised upper class society.

Similarly, becoming a hermit and avoiding contact with other people would be considered deviant behaviour but it is not criminal.

Institutionally, there are no mechanisms for punishing someone for deviant behaviour of any kind.

It is this lack of integration between what the culture calls for and what the structure permits that causes deviant behaviour.

The research is designed to examine the deviant behaviour of young girls and women during the process of the transition from school into the labour market.

They condemned them for deviant behaviour.

Songs are composed satirising deviant behaviour, anti-social activity, etc.

She had an unhappy childhood, as her strict parents used violence to control what they regarded as her deviant behaviour.

On the same day, counsel for the two policemen involved in the shooting released an explanatory statement that described the deceased as demonstrating "deviant behaviour".

Regular eating of these objects should be treated with special attention as it is a deviant behaviour and often indicates a high level of social deprivation.

We mentioned in the Introduction that earlier sociological studies of deviant behaviour provide notes of caution about investigating phenomena like heroin use.

Public discourse emphasised not only this deviant behaviour but also the victim role, trapped and in the hands of pimps and traffickers.

(3) together with rejection and disapproval of the deviant behaviour: e.g. homosexuality as regarded in less enlightened circles.

At the same time, the general theories of behavioural change suggest possible explanations to criminal behaviour and methods of correcting deviant behaviour.

However, it cannot adequately deal with either issue without stepping out of its self-constructed framework which sees prejudice as the unenlightened, deviant behaviour of individuals.

The first two chapters explain the labelling perspective, with later chapters applying this perspective to specific types of deviant behaviour, such as drug use.

Stereotyped deviant behaviour is inevitably a social phenomenon, and concerns us almost as much as it does social psychologists or psychiatrists.

The aim is to make them cross the line into criminal and deviant behaviour but in a way that can be framed to sound fun and harmless.

Approaching it as an anthropologist, he classifies the question as falling under the rubric of the anthropology of deviant behaviour.

Lucy and Yvonne point to two distinct sources in explaining deviant behaviour:(1) racism and (2) those pressures, such as unemployment, also faced by white people.

Deviant behaviour- the mark of a potential renegrade - was a Code Two default which could lead to arrest and extended treatment - known as 'reprogramming'.