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The past couple of weeks we have been learning about deviance and how it plays a role in our every day lives. Whether it be good or bad deviance, deviance effects how the people around you view you. However who you are and where you are in the world changes what it means to be deviant and how it affects you. In the podcast we listened to 21 chump street we saw a minority student with above average grades get arrested for drug dealing. even though the student only got the drugs for the undercover cop because he kept on getting pressured by her, the student still got charged with the crime. On the other side of the spectrum, in Stevenson High School there was a similar situation that happened with a major drug bust in the 2012 school year. After finding over 100 students connected to a major drug ring going on in the school only 2 students got expelled but no arrests. Because Stevenson is in one of the most affluent counties in the country, the school didn't think the involvement of authorities was necessary. But, if you were to go across the country to one of the poor counties in the nation, you would have the authorities brought in without letting the school even know. Deviance not only decides how others perceive you, but also decides how you can behave in society.

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Growing up I have always been in the stereotypical boy routine. Whether it be as a baby being dressed in blue, or being put in football and baseball as a child, what it meant to be a "boy" has always been instilled into me. As I aged, and saw the ideas of men having to be tough, emotionless and strong, while women were expected to be more caring and more in touch with their emotions being the norm, I never thought twice about it before this year. Marketing companies are notorious for perpetuating these gender stereotypes by pushing "standard" gender roles in magazines. Also by over sexualizing those who are in the magazines, readers of said magazine tend to develop unrealistic thoughts on what it should be like to be a certain type of person, further confusing the population on what it means to be either truly male or female. In the Documentary Killing Us Softly we are shown how modeling agencies and the advertising companies portray their female models in more submissive positions while taking photos of them. This is not only bad for the models themselves, but also to whoever would read the magazine and after a while think "Oh, okay this is how the people I look up to in the magazines act like so if I want to be like them this is what I should do". Furthermore when dealing with online pictures it is hard to find "real" untouched photos without them being edited in some way, shape or form. Supermodel Cindy Crawford said "Even I don't wake up looking like Cindy Crawford." Showing that even supermodels don't know who the people in the magazines are.