Social Control and Deviance
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Social control and also deviance is the community’s effort to exercise and even take control of divergent behavior through enforcing compliance to social standards and even values for the betterment of every individual or a majority of the community’s citizens in self-governing countries. Suburbia areas are residential areas, which are located on a city’s outskirts, and they are usually a big community. The Twilight Zone episode makes several suggestions regarding social control and even deviance.
One suggestion is that most of the gated communities in the suburbia often do not accept any form or kind of public deviance. For that reason, a majority of the parents with rebellious kids often decide to move to suburbia areas to help curb the deviance behavior in their kids. Nevertheless, the episode also suggests that unruly youngsters will always go to the extreme to have their way despite their parents’ sacrifice and stringent actions, which puts them into more trouble. Another suggestion made by the episode is that a majority of the outskirts’ communities present an austere and favorable environment for children since it is far from all the evils of the city; thus, the kids are less exposed to a lot of negative stuff.
My sociological response concerning the episode is that the community goes beyond limits to curb the kids’ deviance behavior. Despite the deviance behavior in the children involved, subjecting the kids to such mental torture is not advisable as it may have a negative psychological effect. The parents included are willing to do anything to change their problematic children, including completely losing them in the process, which is a sign of dangerous desperation. The parents involved also choose their property over their kids. They would rather have their kids taken away to unknown places when things get out of proportion than wait to get kicked out of the community and lose everything.
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