Post 8

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.