Defining Deviancy Up

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Defining Deviancy Up

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Defining deviancy up can be said to have been a tactical analysis of the deviant trends in modern society which emanated from the defining deviancy down . In this article , Charles Krauthammer argues that defining deviancy up was a way to adapt to the current deviant situation in the society

Defining Deviancy Up

Charles Krauthammer was concerned with the deviancy situation in the society as he observed that the society seems to

be tolerant to some form of activities that were once in time considered deviant . Basing his argument on comparable research findings which revealed that in 1940 top deviant behavior among school going children was identified as noise making , chewing gums , talking out of turn , cutting in line and running in halls . However , fifty years later , in 1990 , the research revealed that the top deviant behavior in school going children were drug abuse alcohol abuse , suicide , rape , and pregnancy . From the findings , it is a clear indication that there has been an explosion in deviancy within the society during the past fifty years . In defining deviancy up Krauthammer was of the view that the American society has normalized some of the practices that were once considered deviant and finding deviancy in what was initially regarded as normal (Krauthammer , 1993

To drive his point home , Krauthammer elaborates on the changing trends in the society where deviancy has defined down so as to assume that deviancy within the...