Field research study of deviance

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Field research study of deviance

• Kachkynbaeva Merim
• LAW 205

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Content

• Introduction
• Brainstorming on choosing the deviant act
• Rationale for choosing the deviant act
• My statement
• Detailed description of the deviant act
• Application of sociological concepts
• Conclusion

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Introduction

• Generally, when we think of deviance, the word
  itself has a negative implication, and we usually
  think of behaviors such as crime, mental illness,
  alcoholism, prostitution, taking marihuana etc.
  However committing a random act of kindness to a
  strangerarguably, a form of positive deviance.

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Brainstorming on choosing the deviant act

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Rationale for choosing the deviant act

• Something that might be interesting for me as
  well as for my audience
• Something save, and without any embarrassing
  consequences
• Something that is random definitely weird for
  others
• Method Covert observation

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Deviant act

• I asked my brother during the Ramazan month to
  sing Jaramazan song by going to apartments of
  people in our district whom we didnt know well
  enough
• He couple of his friends went to 2
  apartments for 2 days.(19.10.06-20.10.06) 1 car
  only once
• So now you are probably thinking where is the
  deviant behavior??? Dont worry youll see

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Why is this act Deviant?

• He is 17 years old, but looks like a 20
  year-old-guy (so dont think that it was easy for
  me to persuade him) his giant friends
• So even though it is one of our traditions to
  sing Jaramazan song for a person of any age,
  recently we see only kids coming to our houses
  and even that makes some of us irritated if they
  come every ten minute

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Why did I expect the act to be deviant?

• People who are old enough and singing
  Jaramazan was a common feature of our Kyrgyz
  tradition, till the present time where almost
  everybody thinks that it is forgotten and being
  out of our normal life. And sometimes being able
  to be the witness of the tradition that you
  didnt even imagine to see again, make people
  react differently and consider that act as a
  deviance.

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Detailed description of the deviant act

• Day 1- around 6 p.m. my brother with his
  friends went to the 2 apartments
• 1st little girl opened the door, then almost in
  a half minute brought some cookies closed
• 2nd woman (around late 30s), surprised she
  stared at them, then when they started barely
  singing, she closed the door and in couple
  minutes brought some snacks. (They barely sang
  just because they didnt expect the woman come
  out)
• As a result nothing tremendously bad happened
  (except the woman, who surprised seeing guys old
  enough )

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Detailed description of the deviant act

• Day 2- around 5-7 p.m. my brother with his
  friends went to the same 2 apartments
• 1st one guy opened the door (it turned out that
  he is going to the same school where my brother
  and his friends go), it was very, very funny and
  strange for him
• 2nd woman (the same), she looked and recalled
  them and probably found it very strange and
  dangerous
• As a result they were subject to laughing and
  subject of being a false accusation

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Detailed description of the deviant act

• Day 3- sometime in the evening they went to
  sing a song to one of the drivers car

The driver was little bit in bad mood so he just
shouted at them and said that car wasnt a house.
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Application of sociological concepts

• Learning perspective
• This perspective focuses on understanding of
  deviance as a result of association with other
  members of the group. So woman who opened the
  door twice had already assumed that the guys
  probably trying to get some kind of information
  or checking who is living. Thats why we were
  witness of her strange attitude even during the
  Jaramazan month, because my brother and his
  friends looked very suspicious. And just only
  thinking about kind of crime she closed the
  door even not giving anything.
• Certainly my brother was really mad of me because
  we didnt even thought it would turn out like
  this. He said he felt like really doing some kind
  of deviant. And of course he felt guilty in front
  of his friends, since they went with him only
  because he asked them. kind of organizing some
  kind of acts

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Application of sociological concepts

• Labeling perspective
• Deviants are those who are labeled by some groups
  of people. To my mind, according to this
  observation I concluded to myself that there is
  no need for some to speak up loudly that another
  one is deviant, since my brother even I felt like
  labeled, just because of her eyes and face
  features and the way she closed the door. But
  certainly we cannot apply this concept as a
  whole, but only partially. Because usually what
  happens, the label leads to the stigma. So my
  brother understood, if at the very beginning he
  didnt want to do it just because of his age, at
  the end he realized how serious everything was.

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Conclusion

• My conclusions drawn from the observations
  conducted by me, thanks to my brother and his
  friends, are that people find those acts that
  used to be considered common as a deviance. And
  the reason for it is the time changes in the
  society, when norms of the community changes with
  the growing generation.
• And it is obvious that people start accusing
  those young people for widespread misbehave.

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Used resources

• http//oregonstate.edu/instruct/soc204/plazad/devi
  ance.htm
• http//www.animationfactory.com/en/search/index.mc
  ?cidE17

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Thank you very much!!!

• Kachkynbaeva Merim
• LAW 205