Lecture Notes on Physical Deviance, Relationships, Cyberspace, and Subcultures

Flashcards about physical deviance and appearance, relationships and deviance, deviance in cyberspace, subcultural deviance, elite deviance, corporate deviance, and workplace misconduct.

Physical Deviance

Violations of aesthetic norms and physical incapacity.

Physical Deviance as a Marker

The idea that physical deviance may be viewed as a marker of other forms of deviance; passersby may attribute other characteristics to those individuals.

Sociological Concern Regarding Ideal Physical Appearance

Setting a truly unattainable standard for the ideal physical appearance can lead to deviant behavior, including harmful eating disorders or unnecessary plastic surgeries.

Self-Injury

Cutting, burning, branding, scratching, picking at skin, biting, hair pulling, and bone breaking.

Reasoning Behind Self-Injury

An attempt at self-help that provides immediate but short-term release from anxiety, depersonalization, racing thoughts, and rapidly fluctuating emotions.

Demedicalized Self-Injury

Shifted out of the realm of mental illness and categorized instead as deviance, characterized by the voluntary choice of those involved.

Body Modification

Includes extreme tattooing and piercing.

Sexual Deviance

Variant sexual acts that violate mainstream society's norms; examples include exotic dancers, prostitutes, and online sexual predators.

The Ashley Madison Agency

A discreet dating service marketed to those who are married and wish to have affairs.

Monogamy

The legal norm in the United States, yet some religions and subcultures still allow and encourage men to take multiple wives.

Cyberdeviance

New forms of deviance that have taken shape as new technology has developed (e.g., Russia tampering with the U.S. presidential election in 2016).

"Incel Rebellion"

Fueled by individuals who define themselves as 'involuntarily celibate.'

"Johns"

The male heterosexual clients of sex workers.

Subcultural Deviance

Subcultures that might be considered deviant by at least some segment of the population

Elite Deviance

Criminal and deviant acts by the largest corporations and the most powerful political organizations.

What do poor and working-class addicts face if they don't follow the treatment program?

Criminal sanctions

College sugar babies

Trade sex for money, generally resist the label of prostitution