There are Only Two Kinds of People in This World.

Social deviance is any action, idea, thought that breaks or violates social norms. Social deviance are not inherited by genetics but rather created socially. They are socially constructed based on people, places, and ideas.  In the reading The Saints and the Roughnecks by William J. Chambliss we see negative social deviance at its finest.  The community classifies many of the teen boys in either the saints or the rough necks.  Both groups broke the laws. They drank and said demeaning things against women. They also tired/did skip classes.  However how people reacted to them was very different.  They based their judgments on the teen’s economic standing.  The saints were middle class had nice cars,  clothes. Yet the rough necks were lower class , didn’t dress “proper” or have “good manners”.  The society put them into groups of good vs. bad. They were then treated based on this perception. Just like we treat spit with a negative connotation and think it is gross. That is what the community did to the rough necks they saw no hope and that all rough necks were bad. Unlike saliva which people will see as scientific and not stray from it. The community did not stray away from the saints. They tried to “help” them and gave the benefit of the doubt like you would give to the word saliva but never  did they give the benefit to the rough necks just like today we never would think twice about spit it is always seen as “bad or disgusting”.   Yet we can look at these two groups in a whole different way. In the movie “my name is khan” Khan’s mother tell him“  "There are only two kinds of people in this world. Good people who do good deeds. And bad people who do bad. That's the only difference in human beings. There's no other difference." Here we could look at the groups as just humans. No rough necks or saints. Just teenage boys. And since they were not doing “good deeds” they can be seen as “bad”. But never according to khan’s wise words would people be seen as rich or poor, middle class, good looking, black, white. This way of thinking gets rid of any negative social deviance.  It makes us clear our minds of any preconceived thoughts on people based on Social deviances. When you look at life this way you don’t  create stereotypes. You think just because a person is “......” they will act or speak or think like “.......”.  You base people by their actions not by family backgrounds, religions, or race. If only the whole world could think like this. We would have more love and less hate.