Deviance

In class we recieved a check list where we were to mark next to the following that we would say violate America's social norms. I marked next to; Continuosly talking to ones self in public, having a tattoo, dropping out of high school, growing your hair really long, cutting your hair really short, a man wearing a dress, balancing your groceries on your head in public, driving 80 mph down Port Clition, Attacking another person with a weapon, two men kissing, and women working in a factory or construction cite. Deviance is all about perception and social agents. If it was a different time period maybe having really lond hair or short would be concidered the norm. And in a business savy, economic slumping society if you don't have a high school degree you can forget about finacial stability. And with the perseption of women in a phyical workplace in unheard of. It's all about the media's influence and our perceptions.