Deviant behavior is a person's actions that contradict the generally accepted, prevalent and established norms of behavior during a certain period of their development. Types of deviant behavior in society can be both positive and negative.

Characteristics of deviant behavior

Deviant behavior can be called a social choice: when social behavior has such goals that contradict the real possibilities of achieving them, individuals can use a variety of ways to solve the problems they have set themselves.

For example, some individuals, in order to achieve illusory success, wealth or power, choose means that are socially forbidden, and sometimes even illegal, such people become criminals or offenders.
Another form of deviation from norms is manifested in the form of open disobedience and protest, demonstrative rejection of the standards and values ​​of society. This kind is characteristic of revolutionaries, terrorists, religious extremists and other similar groups that are actively fighting the norms adopted in the society in which they are.
All these cases of deviation are the result of the reluctance or inability of individuals to adapt to society and obey its requirements, in other words, this indicates that there is a complete or relative failure of socialization.

Positive deviance of

Thanks to the positive deviance of some people, we can use high technologies and enjoy amazing pictures.
Bright examples of deviant behavior from life and history can be called such brilliant and famous people as Albert Einstein and Salvador Dali.

Einstein, who is a brilliant physics theorist, author of works on the quantum theory of light, the founder of modern physics, who created the private and general theory of relativity, was completely scattered and divorced from reality.

Salvador Dali, the most famous artist, a man who had creativity and unsurpassed universalism, is also an example of deviance. But his paintings are capable of exciting, horrifying, inspiring hope or disappointment. It is unlikely that currently there is a person who would be able to create the same in their emotional works.

Negative deviance of

Deviance can be manifested in the form of prostitution, the commission of criminal acts, the use of alcohol and drugs. People who exhibit negative deviant behavior can become clients of sociologists, psychologists, educators, doctors and even law enforcement agencies.
The manifestation of negative deviant behavior forces society to impose formal and informal sanctions on the offender. The intruder can be isolated, sent for treatment or punished.

There are specialists who are engaged in correcting deviant behavior.

Correction of deviance of personality

Correction of deviance is a social-pedagogical and psychological complex of procedures that are interrelated and interdependent. As a result of correction, the motivation, attitudes and behavior of the individual must be adjusted, a person must change his views on life.

There is an impact on a variety of internal motivations that regulate and correct the personality qualities that characterize attitudes towards social behavior.

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