Choose one TV show found in popular culture. Identify the deviance witnessed. How do you understand it from a relativist perspective?
What will be an ideal response?
Sister Wives—a look inside the world of a polygamist marriage. This reality show introduces viewers to a man, his four wives, and his 16 children. His motto: “Love should be multiplied, not divided.”
My Strange Addiction—a reality show that highlights potentially deviant obsessions of individuals with addictions such as eating glass, plastic bags, household cleaners, or makeup; having dozens of surgeries in order to look like a living doll; and living as husband and wife with a synthetic doll.
Seinfeld—a situation comedy that is simply masterful at focusing on small behaviors or characteristics that break norms and are perceived as deviant. Episodes on the close-talker, the low-talker, and the high-talker, for example, all illustrate unwritten norms on interpersonal communication.
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