People in power often use their influence to protect their own interests and stay in control, looking for flaws in others to criticize them. Those seen as deviant, or different from society’s norms, are usually judged by those in power. These people are often afraid that new ideas might challenge their authority and replace them. Those with influence may see people who think differently as wrong or inferior, but in reality, their fear comes from losing power to someone with a fresh perspective.

The Cash family was different from most families because they lived far from the city, deep in the forest, and survived only by using their natural instincts. This way of living can be seen as deviant because it is very different from what most people consider normal. The text shows that different societies and situations have different beliefs about what is right and wrong. For example, (text example) killing someone is usually seen as wrong, but in war, killing an enemy is considered a success (Pg.7 ). This idea connects to the Cash family because their father believed he was protecting his children from a society he thought was deviant. To him, the modern way of living—depending on schools, jobs, and technology—was not natural. People from modern cities saw the Cash family as strange or even unreasonable because they lived outside the usual norms of society. For example, even though they had warm, comfortable beds, they chose to sleep outside under the stars. To most people, this would seem like a strange decision since comfort and security are usually preferred. However, for the Cash family, this choice was completely natural.This shows that what seems deviant depends on perspective rather than being right or wrong.

2.Masturbation was defines as a sin disease in Victorian times but today is considered healthy 

3.Suicide by an 80 year old man with terminal cancer may be considered by many justifinable, whereas a suicide attempt by a college student ordinarily is seen as deviant and usually leads to pshycotric treatment 

4.Certain forms of homosexuality were accepted amoung the cultural elite in classical Greece but in America such conduct is condemned and stigmatized.(Pg 7)

- Historian, novelist, and columnist James Carroll

-Author and physicist Alan Lightman

-Biologist Robert Weinberg.

-Philosopher and novelist Rebecca Goldstein

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2.Deviance is a social definition

3.Social groups make rules and enforce their definitions on members thought judgment and social sanction

4.Deviance is contextual

5.Defining and sanctioning deviance involves power

2.Are there any social norms or rules that the Cash family rejects that you think actually make them wise? What purpose does rejecting these norms serve to the family?

3.How does the text analyze the parallel between medicalization and deviance?

4.Who in society decide what is deviance and what is not? And why do we follow this perceptions?

5.How people in power can use deviance in favor of them? 

6.How did the dad change over the movie?