Writing Homework Help

The class project challenges you to Identify and select a famous person (television, Hollywood, news media) who you believe is an example of deviance. In Part 2 you applied theories of deviance to your person, in part 3 of the class project, think of yourself as sociologist attempting to explain your person’s behavior and use apply the seven stages of deviance to your deviant person.

Estimated Time

You should spend approximately 10 hours on this task.

Instructions

1. Review Part V of the textbook, pages 247-252 where the textbook authors describe the formation of the deviant identity and where the seven stages of deviance are listed and exampled.

2. Consider yourself to be a sociologist and categorize, explain and appraise how your selected deviant person fits into one or more of these stages that are listed by the textbook authors.

3. Your deviant person should fit into at least one to two or more of these stages of deviance, but few people will fit into all seven stages of deviance. Do not be alarmed if all categories do not fit your person.

4. Specify specific behaviors, personality traits and life examples of your deviant person and how these character traits relate to the stages of deviance listed in the readings.

5. Using the knowledge about deviance obtained in this module, combined with information learned in the first and second modules, to describe why you believe this person is to be considered deviant, providing specific examples to define why you categorize your person’s behavior into a stage.

6. You may also justify these deviant stages as to why your person is deviant using specific references from this particular module. Your justification can come from the activities, your readings, or any materials you explored during this module.

7. Be prepared in future parts of this project assignment to again expand on this deviance character definition of your person

8. Post your persons deviance stages to the Drop Box titled Project Part 3: Applying the Seven Stages of Deviant Identity to your Deviant Person.