We all start running across a field towards a very busy ninth street. In the middle of the street I trip and drop all of my cds. They go everywhere. There I am running around in the middle of the street, no idea why but there was an unusually high amount of traffic for that time of night, between cars trying to pick up all of my cds. Eventually I get all but one of them and proceed to run two miles home. When I get home that is when everything hits the fan. To start off with I am an hour late for curfew. My mom asks me if I am drunk. Of course I say no. Then I proceed to trip and fall over the change from a wood floor to carpet, I hit my face on the floor, my nose is bleeding all down the front of me, I mean it is just gushing blood, and all I can do is laugh about it. So at this point my mom and dad lecture me for hours and attempt to decide my punishment. I end up getting grounded for two weeks and my dad makes me work the sectional swim meet in four hours. It was hell. This behavior was deviant due to the fact that it was breaking the law. The three sociological theories of deviance that apply to this behavior are differential association, labeling theory, and anomie theory. Differential association states that deviance is learned through interactions with other people. It is obvious that prior to this year I did not party or participate in alcohol use, but when I no longer played football I started hanging out with people that did do these things. I feel that by hanging out with individuals that would drink and party I learned that it was ok for me to do the same. So this theory does apply to the act of deviance that I partook in. Labeling theory states that people are labeled into what kind of individual they are, and that individuals live up to this label. In this case the people I hung out with were considered partiers, and so was I, even though I did not party. All out of season athletes were considered to be...
