A Clockwork Orange
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The film A Clockwork Orange presents a vision of deviance in a future society, a society extrapolated from the growing urban crime problems of 1970 when the film was made. The exact year in which the film is set is not indicated, but it is likely somewhere around our current era. The film creates a sense of menace from the first, and yet at the same time, it uses strong imagery and high stylization to turn its dark vision into a black comedy. The concept of deviance by which sociologists try to explain aberrant and anti-social behavior, or behavior that goes against the norms of society, explains the delinquent activity in A Clockwork Orange, though the film undercuts a strict interpretation of crime as deviance by developing the idea that some crime is an expression of personal preference and inner freedom. The opening sequences of A Clockwork Orange look to the near future, extrapolating from our own time to one where many young people have become urban marauders, taking out their frustrations in violence and living completely amoral lives. Alex is the leader of this group, and he serves as narrator as well, telling his own story in a way that is chilling because of the apparent saneness of the voice describing the most horrifying acts of violence, which can also be seen in the carefully controlled images of the film. Each of the crimes committed in the opening frames will serve as models for later scenes in the film once Alex has been brainwashed and returned to so
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isfits like Alex.
Deviance involves a degree of stigmatization of a sub-population by the majority population on the basis of some difference, a difference that sets the sub-population apart and that is emphasized by the majority population in identifying the deviant population. Different theories have been offered for why and how the deviant population is identified and marginalized. At any given time, there are deviant conceptions and categories which determine who is and who is not to be identified as deviant according to behavior, status, or some other dimension. Social observers provide acts with meanings and so indicate whether the acts are deviant or nondeviant. At different times, certain behaviors may be removed from the deviant categories and so alter the picture of crime and deviance in society, just as behaviors might be added and accomplish much the same thing. As Thompson and Hickey (1994) note,
At least four essential elements are involved in the process of defining deviance: norms, acts, actors, and an audience. Similarly, deviance is relative to time, place, situation, and culture (Thompson and Hickey, 1994, 173).
Erikson (1966) describes the concept of deviance and deviant behavior, which he applies t
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