How does society define what is deviant?

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Social Issues

 

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Mary A

 

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June 2, 2013

 

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Instead I will be focusing upon how any definitions of deviance are biased towards the upper class definitions. It is the upper class that have access to the institutions through which any general definitions are determined. It is the upper class that have access to the state law institution, that have the corporate control over the gate keeping media, and have an exuberant presence within the institutions of social definition, the church and the school...
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Through this essay I will adopt the theories of deviance available and examine the upper class power over institutions to demonstrate that they merely enhance the upper class definitions of deviance rather than any other. It is not a case of how society defines what is deviance, but how the upper class legitimately and successfully determine what is defined as deviance – and this includes many academic theorists on the matter...
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