SOCA02H3 Final: MSL READING FOR FINAL-#19- CRIME AND DEVIANCE - Summarized and easy to understand
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Deviance is the recognized violation of social norms; whether a person is labeled deviant depends on how. Rosenhan explores the social deviance of mental illness and the consequences of labeling people sane others perceive, define, and respond to that person"s behavior. or insane . our notions of normality and abnormality may not be quite as accurate as people believe they are. there is a great deal of conflicting data on the reliability, utility and meaning of such terms as sanity, insanity, mental illness, and schizophrenia. benedict (1934) suggested that normality and abnormality are not universal; what is viewed as normal in one culture may be seen as quite abnormal in another. from bleuler, to kretchmer, through the formulation of the revised dsm (diagnostic and. Statistical manual) of the apabelief has been strong that patients present symptoms and those symptoms can be categorized and implicitly, the sane are distinguishable from the insane.
