Q Background One of the most sophisticated intellectual tasks is applying class theories, concepts, and arguments to your own life. For the final course assessment, you will select a moment of deviance in your life (big or small), identify which deviance theory explains your choices, and give recommendations about which approach to deviance you believe would have best sanctioned your deviant act. This assignment will synthesize everything we’ve been learning this semester, so you can see all of the pieces come together! What you are doing: You are analyzing a time when you were deviant using all of the different dimensions of deviance we have covered in this course. In other words, you are using all you have learned about the social construction of deviance, theories of deviance and systems of social control to better understand your own experience. Steps to complete it: Identify a moment of deviance from your own life. It can be big or small. Please don’t disclose anything you feel uncomfortable sharing; we will be working with one another to develop the paper. You can choose an act of positive deviance if you’d like, but it may be a bit more challenging to work with. You will analyze your deviant act across three sections in your paper. We will spend time in the weeks leading up to the paper developing each of those sections. The sections are: Analysis of the act of deviance: Why was that particular act deviant? What social norms, beliefs, and values did it violate? You want to be doing analysis similar to what we did in the Positive Side of Deviance assignment. Theoretical explanation of deviance: Which theoretical perspective about deviance would best explain why you were deviant? You need to draw on one of the seven theories of deviance we discussed in this course. You are making an argument as to which one of those theories best explains why you were deviant. You want to be as specific as possible here by using concrete ideas, terms and concepts from the theory you chose to explain your behavior. Correcting the deviant act: What forms of social control was your act of deviance met with? How effective was it in regulating your behavior? You need to correctly identify one of the different forms of social control that we have studied in class. There are three pre-writing activities before you submit the final paper. In each of these activities, you will be developing your ideas for a given section using a different prewriting strategy. You can find the due dates for these activities on the class calendar. Based on these activities, you will write the final paper. The paper must contain those three sections with multiple paragraphs developed for each of them. You will include a reflection with the final paper. To complete the reflection, please answer these questions: What did it feel like to analyze your own life in this way? Do you see the situation differently when examining it through the sociological lens? What were the benefits of examining this moment sociologically? What are the limitations? What did you learn about deviance from this process? What insights might it give you about why people are deviant or how we as a society deal with deviance? Make sure to proofread your draft before submitting it on Canvas. The best way to proofread is to either read your draft out loud or have your phone/ computer read it to you. You will catch most of your errors this way.