Conformity Deviance
compliance with standards, rules, or In sociology, deviance describes an action
laws.
"conformity to regulations"
behavior in accordance with socially
accepted conventions or standards.
"loyalty to one's party need not imply
unquestioning conformity"
compliance with the practices of the
Church of England.
1. : correspondence in form, manner,
or character : AGREEMENT behaved
in conformity with her beliefs
2. 2: an act or instance
of conforming her conformity with the
latest fashions
3. 3: action in accordance with some
specified standard or
authority conformity to social
custom conformity with the federal
law and state insurance codes.
Conformity is the act of matching
attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors to
group norms. Norms are implicit, specific
rules, shared by a group of individuals,
that guide their interactions with others.
This tendency to conform occurs in small
groups and/or society as a whole, and may
result from subtle unconscious influences,
or direct and overt social pressure.
Conformity can occur in the presence of
others, or when an individual is alone. For
example, people tend to follow social
norms when eating or watching television,
even when alone.
or behavior that violates social norms,
including a formally enacted rule
(e.g., crime), as well as informal violations
of social norms (e.g.,
rejecting folkways and mores). It is the
purview
of criminologists, psychiatrists, psycholog
ists, and sociologists to study how these
norms are created, how they change over
time, and how they are enforced.
deviant quality, state, or behavior.
Differing from a norm or from the acc
epted standards of a society.
n.
One that differs from a norm, especia
lly a person whose behavior and attit
udes differ from accepted social stan
dards.
The fact or state of diverging from
usual or accepted standards,
especially in social or sexual
behaviour.
a study of crime and deviance
social deviance.
Social Control
Social control is a concept within the
disciplines of the socialsciences. ...
Formal means of social control
External sanctions enforced by
government to prevent the establishment
of chaos or anomie in society. Some
theorists, such as mile Durkheim, refer
to this form of control as regulation.
1.
Sociology. the enforcement of co
nformity by society upon itsmem
bers, either by law or by social p
ressure.
2.
the influence of any element in s
ocial life working to maintain the
pattern of such life.
Social control - is the basic mean of social
solidarity and conformity rather than
deviance. It controls the behavior, attitudes
and actions of individuals to balance their
social situation. Man is born free but in
chains everywhere he lives. A person living
in a society has to adopt certain rules and
regulation. These are the social norms on
which the whole society is running. For
smooth functions and running of these
norms these controls are necessary. It
regulates harmony and brings unity among
individuals of the same group. It also affects
socialization process. When social norms
are followed by the people of a society, it
means that they adopt conformity to society
and establish control. The deviancy from
these norms leads to punishment may be
lighter or serious, which touch the boarder of
law.
the rules and standards of society
that circumscribe individual action
through the inculcation of
conventional sanctions and the
imposition of formalized mechanism
Gossip
casual or unconstrained
conversation or reports about other
people, typically involving details
that are not confirmed as being true.
"he became the subject of much local
gossip"
:rumor(s), tittle-
tattle, whispers, canards, tidbits;
engage in gossip.
"they would start gossiping about her as
soon as she left"
spread rumors, spread
gossip, talk, whisper, tell tales, tittle-
tattle, tattle;
informaldish the dirt
"she gossiped about Dean's wife"
1. a person who habitually reveals
personal or sensational facts
about others the worstgossip in
tow.
2. rumor or report of an intimate
nature spreading gossip about
their divorce b : a chatty talkc :
the subject matter of
gossip Their breakup was
common gossip.
3.
4. Example:
Have you heard the latest gossip (=
what is being said about someone)?
 Ostracism
was a procedure under the Athenian
democracy in which any citizen could
be expelled from the city-
state of Athens for ten years. While some
instances clearly expressed popular
anger at the citizen, ostracism was often
used preemptively. It was used as a way
of neutralizing someone thought to be a
threat to the state or potential tyrant. It
has been called an "honourable exile" by
scholar P. J. Rhodes.[1] The word
"ostracism" continues to be used for
various cases of social shunning.
exclusion, by general consent, fr
om social acceptance, privileges
,friendship, etc.
(in ancient Greece) temporary pa
nishment of a citizen, decided up
onby popular vote.
1. : a method of temporary
banishment by popular vote
without trial or special
accusation practiced in
ancient Greece Ostracism of
political opponents was a
common practice in ancient
Athens.
those who have decided to risk
social ostracism and stay on the
wrong side of town.
denunciation, tougher
sanctions and ostracism from
the civilised world.
Laws
"the system of rules that a particular
country or community recognizes as
regulating the actions of its
members and may enforce by the
imposition of penalties.
"they were taken to court
for breaking the law"
an individual rule as part of a system
of law.
plural noun: laws
"an initiative to tighten up the laws
on pornography
1.
the principles and regulations e
stablished in a community by so
meauthority and applicable to it
s people, whether in the form of
legislation or of custom and poli
cies recognized and enforced by
judicial decision.
2.
any written or positive rule or c
ollection of rules prescribed und
er theauthority of the state or n
ation, as by the people in its con
stitution.
Compare bylaw, statute law.
3.
the controlling influence of such
rules; the condition of societybr
ought about by their observanc
e:
maintaining law and order.

Punishment
1. : the act of punishing
1. 2 : suffering, pain, or loss that
serves as retributionb : a
a traditional or fixed way of behaving.
penalty inflicted on an offender
through judicial procedure
2. 3: severe, rough, or disastrous
treatment.
Punishment is the act of inflicting a
consequence or penalty on someone as
a result of their wrongdoing, or the
consequence or penalty itself.
A punishment is the imposition of an
undesirable or unpleasant outcome upon
a group or individual, meted out by
an authorityin contexts ranging
from child discipline to criminal lawas a
response and deterrent to a particular
1. an act of violent or open resistance to
action or behaviour that is deemed
undesirable or unacceptable. The
reasoning may be to condition a child to
avoid self-endangerment, to impose
social conformity .
A punishment is the imposition of an
undesirable or unpleasant outcome upon
a group or individual, meted out by
an authorityin contexts ranging
from child discipline to criminal lawas a
response and deterrent to a particular
action or behaviour that is deemed
undesirable or unacceptable.
Ritualism
the regular observance or practice of
ritual, especially when excessive or
without regard to its function.
"Christmas shopping is steeped in
consumer ritualism"
Retreatism
involves rejecting both the goals and
the means. For example, one might just
drop out of society, giving up on
everything. Rebellion also involves
rejecting goals and means, but
rebellion, as opposed to retreatism,
which entails finding new goals and
new means to obtain them.
|Rebellion
an established government or ruler.
"the authorities put down a rebellion by
landless colonials"
syno uprising, revolt, insurrection, mutiny,
nym revolution, insurgence, insurgency; M
s: ore
o the action or process of resisting
authority, control, or convention.
"an act of teenage rebellion"
syn defiance, disobedience, rebelliousness,
ony insubordination, subversion, subversi
ms: veness, resistance
"an act of rebellion"