Questions about the Defining Deviance poster

What’s on the Defining Deviance poster?

A definition and 6 facts worth remembering. Behaviour that a given group treats as breaking its norms. The category depends on the audience, the setting and the period, not on the act alone. The same act is deviant in one setting, not another.; Deviance is broader than crime; crime is codified.; Some deviance is admired, not punished.; Norms range from folkways to mores to law.; Who defines the norm is the sociological question.; Becker: deviance is created by rule-making.; Relative to — group, place, time; Wider than — crime; Shouting is normal at a match, deviant in a library, and a criminal offence in neither.. Educational reference on how sociology classifies behaviour. Nothing here is a statement of any jurisdiction's law.

Who is the Defining Deviance poster for?

Defining Deviance belongs to the Sociology section rather than to a school year, because law & society is not something one grade owns. Anyone learning crime & deviance can pin it up — a beginner, a student mid-course, or someone revising years later.

When should you use the Defining Deviance poster?

Before treating any behaviour as inherently deviant. A wall chart earns its place by being glanceable from where the work is happening, so Defining Deviance belongs on the wall where that law & society work actually happens, within glancing distance, rather than filed away.

What other posters go with Defining Deviance?

Broken Windows, The Dark Figure of Crime and Differential Association sit alongside Defining Deviance in the Sociology section. Printed together they make a wall rather than a single sheet, which is how a reference set actually gets used.Broken WindowsThe Dark Figure of CrimeDifferential Association

Is the Defining Deviance poster free to download and print?

Yes. Defining Deviance downloads as a free PDF with no account, no email and no watermark, like everything else in the Sociology section. Print as many copies as you like for a home, a classroom, a library or a tutoring group; reselling the file is the only thing the licence rules out.Read the licence

What size does the Defining Deviance poster print at?

Defining Deviance is a vector PDF laid out for US Letter, and prints on A4 with Fit to page — the same file, no separate download. Because every mark on it is drawn rather than photographed, it stays sharp enlarged to A3, A2 or A1 at a copy shop. Colour carries emphasis only, so a greyscale print of Defining Deviance loses nothing.Printing guide