MARIAN DEVOTION IN PHILIPPINE CATHOLIC

• Deviance


  Recognized violation in culture norms
• Crime


  One category of deviance which is defined as violation of a society's formally enacted criminal law
• Social Control


  Regulations, sanctions, mechanisms, and systems that restrict the behavior of individuals in accordance with social norms and orders. It involves either forceful or persuasive ways of making individuals behave in certain way.
• Social Control


  • Parent scolding her daughter
  • Laws, policies, rules and sanction through the criminal justice system
• Gossips and rumour


  Dispersed unstructured information usually about a person's life
• Gossips and rumour may be referred as deviant behavior
• Sociological theories on deviance and crime


  • Functionalism
  • Symbolic Interactionism
  • Conflict Theory
• Functionalism


  • Concerned with the way the different element of a society contribute to the whole
  • Deviance as a key component of a functioning society
  • Challenges people's present views
  • Reaffirm currently held social norms which also contribute to society
• Symbolic Interactionism


  • Explain how society and/or social groups come to view behaviors as deviant or conventional
  • Being deviant is determined by the reactions of others to these behaviors (labeling theory)
  • "deviant" changes over time and can vary significantly across cultures
• Conflict Theory


  • Social and economic factors as the causes of crimes and deviance
  • Deviance as evidence of inequality in the system
• Strain Theory


  Deviance is influenced by access to socially acceptable goals
• Types of Deviance (Merton)

  • Conformity
  • Innovation
  • Ritualism
  • Retreatism
  • Rebellion
• Conformity


  Acceptance of the cultural goals and means of attaining those goals
• Innovation


  Acceptance of the goals of a culture but the rejection of the traditional and/or legitimate means of attaining those goals
• Ritualism


  Rejection of cultural goals but the routinized acceptance of the means for achieving the goals
• Retreatism


  Rejection of both the cultural goals and the traditional means of achieving those goals
• Rebellion


  Rejection of both the cultural goals and traditional means of achieving them but actively attempts to replace both elements of the society with different goals and means