{"id":47,"date":"2009-02-13T09:35:35","date_gmt":"2009-02-13T14:35:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/?p=47"},"modified":"2020-02-11T19:40:49","modified_gmt":"2020-02-12T00:40:49","slug":"what-is-deviance-in-class-activity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/2009\/02\/13\/what-is-deviance-in-class-activity\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;what is deviance?&#8217; in-class activity"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"downloadLinkBox\">\n<h4>Download<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"pdf-file\"><a href=\"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/files\/2009\/02\/deviance-whatisdevianceactivity.pdf\">What Is Deviance &#8211; Handout<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"pdf-file\"><a href=\"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/files\/2009\/02\/deviance-whatisdevianceactivity.pdf\">What Is Deviance &#8211; Handout<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p>The handout posted here has a great in-class activity designed and used by sociology professor <a href=\"http:\/\/www.soc.umn.edu\/~meierann\">Ann Meier<\/a> at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.soc.umn.edu\/\">University of Minnesota<\/a>. The activity encourages student to identify and categorize deviant acts (such as breaking a window) or deviant attributes (such as working as a prostitute) using the following scale:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Not deviant at all = 1<br \/>\nNot so deviant = 2<br \/>\nNeutral = 3<br \/>\nSomewhat deviant = 4<br \/>\nVery deviant = 5<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Then, students are encouraged to discuss why they chose to label certain acts and attributes the way that they did. This exercise is a great way to get students thinking about sociological concepts of deviance, conformity, social control, folkways and mores, as well as crime&#8230; plus it can get them up out of their chairs!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Download What Is Deviance &#8211; Handout What Is Deviance &#8211; Handout The handout posted here has a great in-class activity designed and used by sociology professor Ann Meier at the University of Minnesota. The activity encourages student to identify and categorize deviant acts (such as breaking a window) or deviant attributes (such as working as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[127407,127403,127409],"tags":[124,403,1058],"class_list":["post-47","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-class-exercises-activities","category-teaching-resources","category-worksheets-printables","tag-crime","tag-deviance","tag-socialcontrol"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47\/revisions\/51"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}