Social Ordinance: A Means to Foster a Spirit of Community
There are usually a set of social features that are provided to man so as to regulate their behavior according to the norms and values that have been set. Some people in a community might fail to conform to these norms. The failure to conform to these norms that have been set within the community is termed as deviant behavior. In short, the violation of law that is in existence within the society is known as deviant behavior. Deviant behavior in a community includes criminal behavior, drug abuse, and gang membership and so on.
Description of changed deviant behavior
These deviant behaviors are not permanent as people who exhibit these behaviors change their ways at some point in their life. People end up changing their deviant behavior and become completely different people in the society. These people get tired of the lives they live and opt to turn over a new leaf and start living lives that are totally different from those they lived before. For instance prisoners who have gone through the prison system once released they come out as changed people. They would not want to do anything that can get them back to these prisons. They therefore lead straightforward lives and steer away from crimes as much as possible. This shows that they have gone through rehabilitation and thus are reformed. Therefore they will no longer exhibit deviant behavior since they would not want to go back to prison.
Drug abusers are often admitted into rehabilitation centers where they are guided on how they can stay away from drugs. Once they are out of these centers, they are totally changed people and do not take drugs anymore. They find other things to do which keep them away from taking the drugs. Gang members also abandon their membership in the gangs. There are many reasons why gang members can opt to quit these gangs but...
When they see one of them has died due to gang related activities, they opt to quit the gangs before they die too. Such cases act as eye openers to gang members as they can now see just how dangerous the membership of the gang can be.
These illustrations show that one cannot exhibit deviant behavior forever. There comes a point in their lives when they make a decision of stopping these behaviors and start conforming to the norms of the community and the prevailing social norms and become a part of the social revolution as indicated by Kai T. Erikson (nd:Pp 6)
Analysis of the reasons why people had these kinds of deviant behavior
There are many reasons as to why people have these kinds of deviant behaviors. First of all according to cognitive development theory, deviant behaviors are as a result of how individuals organize their thoughts around law and norm set by and in the society. Thee are three levels of moral reasoning d anyone who does not progress though the levels may end up being stuck in their moral development and hence end up becoming deviants.
Another explanation to deviant behavior is the learning theory. This is based on the fact that a person's behaviors is normally learned and maintained by the consequences of the existing rewards. This means that people learn deviant behavior by looking at the consequences and rewards that the behavior receives. For instance a person that observes their friend stealing something and not getting caught and sees their friend is not being punished and instead they see them get rewarded by keeping the item they stole. The person might end up stealing if they hold the belief that they will be rewarded with similar outcomes (The Connexions Project, 2014).
Another explanation is the differential theory that emphasizes the interaction people have…
