"Homosexuality as a Deviance" The view that homosexuality is deviant allows society to discriminate against certain people.
Title: "Homosexuality as a Deviance" The view that homosexuality is deviant allows society to discriminate against certain people.
Category: /Society & Culture
Details: Words: 1587 | Pages: 6 (approximately 235 words/page)
"Homosexuality as a Deviance" The view that homosexuality is deviant allows society to discriminate against certain people.
Category: /Society & Culture
Details: Words: 1587 | Pages: 6 (approximately 235 words/page)
Deviance is a behavior that does not conform to social norms, therefore is socially created. Since most people in the United States believe that homosexuality is wrong, society has created homosexuality to be a deviance. Since deviance is relative and not absolute to a society, homosexuality is not a universal form of sexual deviance. There are many cultures that accept forms of homosexuality. The Western society is not accepting of it though, and many times …showed first 75 words of 1587 total…
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