SOC 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 27: Pokot People, Orgasm, Disembowelment
3 Dec 2020
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These examples raise a number of important themes we will consider in this chapter, including: Behavior violating the norms or standards of a group, society, or ones peers. Since norms vary with the situation, deviance also varies. Appropriate sexual behavior orgasm and if husband fails to please wife he may be punished. The pokot people in northwest kenya expect both husband and wife will reach. In most societies suicide is considered deviant. But in traditional japanese society, hari-kiri (ritual disembowelment) is expected of disgraced leaders or noblemen. Banned as deviant behavior in 14 states in the early 1900s. Regarded positively in the 1950s when those laws were rescinded. Now smoking is once again regarded as deviant behavior and is banned in many circumstances. Now a lifestyle choice, no longer considered a mental disorder by most official policies of psychological and psychiatric associations. Considered deviant in the first half of the 20th century.
