describe a current, personal experience that might be considered.

describe a current, personal experience that might be considered.

describe a current, personal experience that might be considered

deviant. You can describe something you observed at home, work, or the community; something you saw or heard in the media, or some other current event. Include a description of the issue/event, and discuss it in terms of its social construction. Do you think all communities and/or cultures consider this behavior or way of being as deviant? why do you think this behavior or way of being has come to be defined as deviant? Is there any other way of looking at it?

A good example of socially constructed deviance, which you may not use for this assignment, is abortion. Abortion has been legal in the United States since 1973. However, since the turn of the twenty-first century, some states have imposed local restrictions on abortions. Why is abortion more legal in some states and less in others when women are made to feel deviant? Why do you think in the span of fifty years, abortion has come to be defined as deviant by 49% of Americans, according to Goode? And how and why is abortion acceptable, i.e., “not deviant” in some areas of the country? What are the different viewpoints on abortion – is one right?

Key to discussing your example of deviant behavior is to explore how deviance is conceptualized, defined, enacted, and represented and how these conceptualizations, definitions, enactments, and representations are embodied or constituted.