Deviance

This week in class we talked about deviance, and how it can be good or bad. The study we read was very interesting, because it is very true. This guy does a study on the "saints" of the school, this would be the good kids who do not get in trouble & the "roughnecks" the kids that got in trouble a lot & were barely passing their class, if so at all. It was interesting to see that the Saints could be taking part in the same bad things as the Roughnecks, but since they were looked at like the good kids of the school because they came from wealthy families & had manners, they did not get in nearly as much trouble as the Roughnecks.

To me this study is very interesting to look at because the same thing goes on at school. There is that large group of kids who have a lot of money & are very polite, but they still do the same bad things as those kids who have less money & are looked at as the "druggies." One's status in society will be a label they carry on with them forever, whether it is good or bad. Kids tend to accept what others think of them & even more the kids who are given bad names. They tend to say to themselves "if others think I am bad then I must be." These kids then will keep that in their heads forever because that is what they have been told their whole lives, & will continue to act in bad ways.