through our interactions with significant and generalized others we developed understandings of that acts are acceptable or unacceptable.
Conflict theory
Structures of power determine which behaviours or characteristics are defined and treated as deviant.
Feminist theory
Draws attention to facets of deviance such as the differential standards that women and men face in determining what is considered deviant and the varying experiences they have of being socially typed as deviant and subjected to measures of social control.
Postmodern perspectives
Focused of why we often don't have to be controlled by others but actually control our own behaviours through self surveillance
Strain theory
A theory that addresses the relationship betweenhaving socially acceptable goals and having socially acceptablemeans to reach those goals
Control theory
A theory that states social control is directlyaffected by the strength of social bonds and that deviance resultsfrom a feeling of disconnection from society.
Functionalist
Proposes that social structures cause deviance
Learning theories
Propose that people learn from others to act in deviant ways
Labelling theory
States that we all engage in acts of primary deviance
