A person would be considered to be acting deviantly in society if they are violating what the significant social norm in that particular culture is. What causes humans to act certain ways is a disputed topic among researchers for some time now. There are three types of research that have tried to answer this question. There is the psychological answer, the biological answer, and the sociological answer. With all of the studies that have been performed, no one group has come up with an exact reason why people behave deviantly. Although, sociologists theories have not been disproved as often as the psychologists' and biologists' theories because their experiments are too hard to define, and no one definition for deviance is agreed upon by all experimenters (Pfuhl, 40).
             My own curiosity to find out what the influences are behind deviant behavior is the purpose of this paper. We have already discussed this topic during class in chapter six of the textbook that explains deviance and crime. This section talks more about deviance being a learned behavior. I wanted to find out more information to see if biological factors are also behind this kind of behavior. The most knowledge acquired for why people act deviantly is from the sociological perspective. There is a need for more research, if possible, in the psychological and biological perspectives, but there is a lot more known in the sociological viewpoint. The reality that everyone considers the definition of deviant behavior different makes it complicated and unknown if a truly accurate answer can ever be found (Pfuhl 18). This is why this topic is important to the study of sociology. Sociologists have more information, and therefore may be closer to finding the cause.
             For this reason, my main focus in this paper is on the sociological standpoint of deviance with some explanations from psychologists and biologists. The family is the link to socialization in one's environment (Four Ca...