Deviant behavior in a society
Deviance. What does that term stand for? According to the sociology as the studying, deviance "describes actions or behaviors that violate social norms". There exists both positive and negative deviant behavior. And nowadays you can observe a lot of the examples of the deviance on the everyday basis. The Internet makes it easier to find out, how many facts of the deviant behavior take place in the daily routine.
One of the examples can be the story of the "snack-man", the video of whose deviant behavior on the subway was uploaded on the YouTube and got a lot of the views. The situation was about the next: a woman and a guy were quarreling on the train right in front of all the passengers. The main character in the story was just a bystander in the conflict, but he decided to change it. He, while eating his chips, just came and stopped between the two mad people. Their following reaction was the state of surprise. They got calmer because of that and even ended screaming at each other. The "snack-man's" behavior, weird at some point, had the positive effect on the situation which made his actions to be a great example of the positive deviance.
Another example of the deviant behavior is the story about a very weird robbery. When a teenage criminal was about to run away with the wallet of his victim, the last stopped him and told to take also his jacket, saying: "If you're going to be robbing people for the rest of the night, you might as well take my coat to keep you warm." The young robber suddenly stopped and turned around in a great surprise. He asked the victim: "Why are you doing this?" But think about this kind of situation. What would your reaction be like on such an unusual respond of the victim? Would not you be surprised by such a kind of actions? I am pretty sure that you would, too. And this is what the deviant behavior is mostly all about.
Well, sometimes we show the deviance ourselves without even paying attention to it. However, it is weird from time to time to just stop and think over it. For example, last week we got a class assignment in sociology to create a situation and show our own positive deviance. My positive deviant behavior demonstration took place in just a regular for the everyday routine event and a regular place. It was just during an usual school lunch. When everyone was standing in line and I was standing one of the first among my junior classmates. And I suddenly for all the guys who were standing behind turned around and said to Brent and Connard that they can just go ahead of me. They were pretty surprised, like why would I do that. They started to reject, like no, ladies go first and so on... Just because this is the way how the society and culture accepts it. But anyways, after all the argument, they went ahead. Yes, this was a kind of a positive deviant behavior. And this is what kind of goes against the norms and rule. You break the whole system down. And very often, when we are talking about the deviance, you can make something positive, though even it may seem weird. You should just remember, that it is better to share your kindness, no matter what the other people expect from you. If you know somewhere inside that you can be better than their expectations, then just be better. Surprise those who are around you. Surprise the world. Be a surprise for yourself, sometimes it can be useful. YOLO.
