Would you consider socially and self-destructive behaviors discussed in this section as a sociologically anomic response to rapidly changing society?
In what way do the processes of deviance ascription reflect lifestyle class-based biases? Take into consideration how differences are socially constructed and defined; where street whores are bad but call girls not so bad and have a code of’ ethics’, crack ‘addiction’ is bad but cocaine ‘abuse’ is not so bad, human racialized preferences are color-coded etc… Is the imposition of mainstream standards unfair to marginal groups in light of the different conditions attached to social location and the resources that characterize non-mainstream social environments? Most significantly how do social boundaries and non-conformity functionally promote unity and simultaneously tear at the fabric that holds society together? In your opinion, does imposing a narrow and at times difficult to match expectation of normative conduct, achievement, and lifestyle tautologically create the grounds for exclusion and inequality that characterizes marginal lifestyles in a society characterized by diversity and individual sovereignty?