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Define deviance and provide examples to illustrate your answer.
 
  What will be an ideal response?

Question 2

According to sociologist Talcott Parsons, the wife assumes the __________ tasks of providing affection and emotional support for the family.
 
  a. situational
 b. instrumental
 c. operational
 d. expressive



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Answer to Question 1

Deviance is any behavior, belief, or condition that violates significant social norms in the society or group in which it occurs. We are most familiar with behavioral deviance, based on a person's intentional actions (such as drinking too much or robbing a bank) or a person's inadvertent actions (such as losing money in a casino or laughing at a funeral). People may be regarded as deviant if they express a radical or unusual belief system (members of far-right-wing or far-left-wing political groups may be considered deviant when their religious or political beliefs become known to people with more-conventional cultural beliefs). In addition to their behavior and beliefs, individuals may also be regarded as deviant because they possess a specific condition or characteristic (such as being obese or having AIDS). Deviance is relative; an act becomes deviant when it is socially defined as such. Definitions of deviance vary widely from place to place, from time to time, and from group to group. Deviant behavior also varies in its degree of seriousness, ranging from mild transgressions of folkways, to more serious infringements of mores, to quite serious violations of the law.

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