Deviance or Otherness

On a fundamental level, deviance calls into question basic human beliefs and ideas: in a way, deviant behavior threatens humans. On a social level deviance challenges the present boundaries of social order: the existing web of human relationships, values, reality and meaning

Control is therefore necessary to help maintain order. Internally, this occurs through human socialization. Externally, humans create another system of norms, sanctions and enforcement.

Deviance is problematic to the human social order, and yet essential and intrinsic to any conception of the same social order. Deviance is problematic due to its disruptiveness; on the other hand, deviance is essential because it defines the boundaries of the shared human reality; and lastly, deviance is intrinsic to a conception of order that defines what is real and expected, by defining what is acceptable, and defining who humans are- through always defining opposition to what is unreal, unexpected, unacceptable, and who we are not (æWeÆ defines æTheyÆ). If humans can accept the reality of change, then designations of deviance are crucial in locating the shifting boundaries of the socially structured human

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ant. Most social behaviors and boundaries are learned during adolescence. ôDrug use in adolescence is significant because of its effect on the individualÆs functioning and because of its cost to society in terms of theft, vandalism, and disruption of normal patterns of livingö (Kaplan, 1995, n.p.). A study of Colombian youth was conducted that found that the cultural/ecological domain on drug use that was a direct influence on drug use specifically, the family, the personality and peer factors. Most notably, it found that ôfamilism plays a greater protective role in insulating the adolescent from marijuana use in Colombia than in the United Statesö (Brook et al., 1997, n.p.). One of the reasons they discovered for this after examination was that in Colombia, a greater emphasis was ôplaced on having a closely knit family and on respect for oneÆs elders and authorityö had ôdirect consequences for drug behavior in Colombia and in other culturesö (Brook, 1998, n.p.). It has long been a primary factor in family interactional theory is the mechanism of the mutual attachment relationship between the parents and the child. There are three specific components that characterize the mutual parent-child attachment relationship: (1) af
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