Transgression
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 19015622 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Lauren Langman (0000-0002-2851-5220, Loyola University Chicago, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Pages | 1-5 |
| Publication date | 2019-05-23 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | OTHER |
| Venue | The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology (JOURNAL) |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1002/9781405165518.wbeost041.pub2 |
| OpenAlex | W4240334139 |
| ISBN | 9781405165518 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 6 |
Every society has a dominant set of values and norms regarding appropriate beliefs and practices that attempt to (1) regulate behavior to make social life possible, and (2) provide a meaning for life. At the same time, as Durkheim showed, societies also foster a variety of pressures toward deviance, the transgression of accepted norms and values, which generally has two consequences. First, the punishment of transgressive behavior, whether public execution or private punishment, serves to celebrate the norm and reinforce social solidarity yet at the same time, transgressions often lead to social change. At one time it was quite rare and indeed transgressive for women to pursue professions such as law, politics, medicine, or the academic life. Today half of these positions now go to women. The understanding of society requires understanding its values, norms, and their practices, and the forces that typically maintain conformity as well as the forces for transgression and deviance that in turn foster social change
Conformity · Criminology · Marine transgression · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Solidarity · Transgressive · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Law · Psychology · Social Psychology · Wildlife Conservation and Criminology Analyses
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |