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  • Sociologists explain deviance by three (3) major perspectives: biological, functional conflict, and symbolic interaction. Identify your role, for example, as a parent and which perspective best reflects your personal experience. Discuss the main reasons why this perspective is relevant. 
  • Review Figure 7.1: “Class in the United States” on page 159 of the textbook, in particular, the typical incomes. Speculate on the typical per capita income for your area. Next, go to the United States Census Bureau’s Website, located at http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/index.html, to determine the actual per capita for your county or region. Compare your perception of your area’s per capita and the actual per capita for your area. If you were close, provide a rationale for your speculation. If there was a major discrepancy between your speculation and the actual per capita, suggest a reason for the discrepancy.
  • Identify your role, for example, as a parent and which perspective best reflects your personal experience. Discuss the main reasons why this perspective is relevant. How does your role of one aspect conflict with your role in another aspect, for example, to describe a role strain in your life. How about a role conflict.  For instance, can you be both a parent and a friend to your children, and why or why  not?  What example can you provide where you had to choose one other the other?  What about work conflicts with family or school?
  • Which theory of deviance do you feel is most credible and why, and which is least credible and why?  What examples can you provide to support your view?

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Figure 7.1 Class in the United States (Gilbert-Kahl Model) Table of Contents Discover Sociology TYPICAL ¢ III TYPICAL INCOMES OCCUPATIONS Table of Contents capitalist Per nogle Investors heirs, and executives Top 1% make about $1.5 million per year class XI About the Authors upper middle class Upper managers professionals, and medium-sized business owners 14% make about $80,000 per year XXII Preface XXIX Acknowledgments Lower managers semi-professionals, craftsmen, foremen, and non-retail sales middle class 30% make about $45,000 per year 2 Discover Sociology 28 Discover Sociological... Low-skill manual clerical, and retail sales working class 30% make about $30,000 per year 52 Culture and Mass Media Lowest-paid manual, retail, and service workers working poor 13% make about $20,000 per year 78 Socialization and Social... underclass Unemployed or part-time menial jobs, public assistance Bottom 13% make about $10,000 per year 104 Groups, Organizations, and... 128 Deviance and Social Control SOURCE: Gilbert, D. L. (2011). The American class structure in an age of growing inequality. Thousand Oaks, CA: Pine Forge. I' 154 Social Class and Inequality... 159 Discover Sociology A - Аа D SOURCE: Gilbert, D. L. (2011). The American class structure in an age of growing inequality. Thousand Oaks, CA: Pine Forge. Table of Contents Discover Sociology III Table of Contents Modern capitalist societies are predictably, even more complex: Some sociologists suggest that the shape of class stratification resembles a teardrop (Figure 7.1), with a large number of people in the middle ranks, a slightly smaller number of people at the bottom, and very few people at the top X About the Authors xxii Preface Before we continue, let's look at what sociologists mean when they use the term class. Class refers to a person's economic position in society, which is associated with income, wealth, and occupation. Class position at birth strongly influences a person's life chances, the opportunities and obstacles the person encounters in education, social life, work, and other areas critical to social mobility. Social mobility is the upward or downward status movement of individuals or groups over time. Many middle-class Americans have experienced downward mobility in recent decades. Upward social mobility may be experienced by those who earn educational credentials or have social networks they can tap. A college degree is one important step toward upward mobility for many people. XXIX Acknowledgments 2 Discover Sociology 28 Discover Sociological... The class system in the United States is complex, as class is composed of multiple variables. We may, however, identify some general descriptive categories. Our descriptions follow the class categories used by Gilbert and Kahl, as shown in Figure 7.1 (Gilbert, 2011). At the bottom of the economic ladder, one finds what economist Gunnar Myrdal (1963), writing in the 1960s, called the underclass: “a class of unemployed, unemployables, and underemployed who are more and more hopelessly set apart from the nation at large” (p. 10). The term has also been used by sociologists like Erik Olin Wright (1994) and William Julius Wilson (1978), whose work on the black underclass" described that group as a massive population at the very bottom of the social ladder plagued by poor education and low-paying, unstable jobs” (p. 1). 52 Culture and Mass Media 78 Socialization and Social... 104 Groups, Organizations, and... People who perform manual labor or work in low-wage sectors like food service and retail jobs are generally understood to be working class, though some sociologists distinguish those in the working class from the working poor. Households in both categories cluster below the median household income in the United States and are characterized by breadwinners whose education beyond high school is limited or nonexistent. People in both categories depend largely on hourly wages, though the working poor have lower incomes and little or no wealth; while they are employed, their wages fail to lift them above the poverty line, and many struggle to meet even basic needs. Author David Shipler (2005) suggests that they are invisible," as U.S. mainstream culture does not equate work with poverty. 128 Deviance and Social Control 154 Social Class and Inequality... 159 Discover Sociology Аа 虽
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In sociology, deviance describes an action or general behavior that violates the social norms of a
society (Adler & Adler, 2015). Within the society there are a number of behaviors of individuals
which do not reflect the true norms of the society and as such they are in violation of the set rules
and procedures of the society. Deviance can be described as absent of conformity to the societal
values and norms. It is important to note that social norms vary from society to society and as
such what is considered as a norm in one society may not be a norm to another society and as
such deviance to regarded as failure to conform to the values or norms as set by the society or a
group in which an individual identifies with (Adler & Adler, 2015). As a parent my role is to
guide my children in the direction by being role mod...


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