Go to a public place where there is a lot of pedestrian traffic or people (i.e. quad, the mall, the beach, bar, etc.) For 30 minutes, jot down the various people that you see. Do you see anybody or thing that would be considered deviant according to the definitions of deviance presented in class (i.e. body deviance, clothes, behaviors and actions). Then answer the following questions, are the actions of the individuals you are observing specific to the location you are observing them in or would their actions be different somewhere else? Did the situation you observed had high conformity or if you observed any levels of deviance. What informal social controls are, then describe how informal and formal controls or sanctions factored into controlling or promoting the levels of deviance, or non-deviance, you observed? Choose one theory of deviance and apply that theory to what you observed.
