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SOCIOLOGICAL APPROACHES TO DEVIANCE

Functionalist Perspective

Emile Durkheim – holds that deviance is anatural part of all sceties and serves important functions.
- there is a desirable normative structure, but in times of rapid social chage, a variety of
conflicting norms give rise to a conditio which he calls anomie.

anomie – state of normlessness

Robert K. Merton – according to him, the inconsisties and differences or even contradictions result into
deviant behavior.

Walter Recklessness – developed a control theory which explains that the occurence of deviance but is
largely applicable to delinquency, youth crime, and suicide.

Conflict Theory

Conflict Theory – focuses on the heterogeneous nature of society and the differential distribution and
social power.
- the conflict between the powerful and the weak affects the creation of deviance and......

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