Deviance

Deviance exists in everyone's world. There is positive deviance such as random acts of kindness, and negative acts of deviance such as theft or violence. We read an article called Saints and Roughnecks which was about two different groups of boys in high school and how they are deviant. The Saints were the upper/ middle class boys that would do little pranks and skip class to think they were cool, or stealing little things not worth much. They would never get into that deep of trouble. The Roughnecks were the boys who were more poor and would a t more violent and steal things worth more value. With adolescence, many people think they can get away with things and that it is no big deal to get in trouble, but the way you act as an adolescent will reflect how you are as an adult. Many of the saints went of to college getting degrees, becoming lawyers and business men, while most of the roughnecks wound up becoming druggies or getting caught up in jail. The saints and roughnecks can be found in a lot of schools. There are always the kids that think if they try in school they are wimps or they are peer pressured into doing what the rest of the group is doing to be accepted. If you want to do something deviant, make it positive.