DEVI

ANT
Session 7, 2nd Grading
Understanding Culture, Society, and Politics
 DEVI
Normative ANT
sees deviance as human behavior that
violates existing and generally accepted
perspective social norms
(Ex. Not following the dress codes in
churches)
Robert Merton – Social Strain th
“Social structures exert a definite pressure on certain persons in the
society to engage in non-conforming conduct”
(Ex. Parents putting pressure on their children to get their preferred
course)
Different types of
deviant behavior
 homicide
Killing of a person with no
aggravating circumstances

Parricide
Killing of one’s father, mother or child
whether legitimate or illegitimate
 Murder
Violent means to kill another human being with
malicious intent; with aggravating circumstances
 COMMITTING bodily injury to another human being
Assault

Battery RA 9262 (A-VAWC), act of inflicting physical harm upon the woman or
her child resulting to physical and psychological or emotional
distress
 Encompasses several forms of abusive behavior

Coercion through the use of intimidating, threatening, harmful, or

harassing behavior

Child Maltreatment
Sexual abuse
Emotional abuse
Defined as the willful, deliberate and voluntary termination of one’s life

Jerry contends that persons who end their own lives must in some way
resolve the social prohibitions of suicide.
Jacobs
(1967)
A disease caused by excessive alcohol
consumption

The National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism

notes that alcohol dependence syndrome has these
following criteria:

i. Craving.
ii. Loss of control.
iii. Physical dependence.
iv. Increasing alcohol tolerancce
A drug is defined as a physical substance that causes recognizable physical
or psychological effects (Stephens, 1987)

Addiction refers to physiological dependence or a strong emotional need

for the substance

Tolerance refers to either the need for increased amounts of the

substance to achieve intoxication
 cyberdevia
nce
Computer-related
 Police Scams
offenses

 Identification Theft
 Non – delivery of merchandise
 SPAM
 Computer Damage etc.