Theories

• Interactionist theory


  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
• Deterrence theory


  Assumes that deviance can be prevented with crime