Analyzing Deviant Culture: A Sociology Assignment on Taboo Videos

This assignment examines the representation of deviant culture in society, focusing on six videos selected from National Geographic's Taboo series. The student analyzes each video, defining the specific acts considered deviant and exploring the social context surrounding them. The videos cover diverse topics, including transgender marriage, the worship of female muscle building, hybrid gender, nude weddings, private sperm donors, and looners. The assignment analyzes the social sanctions faced by individuals and groups associated with these behaviors, discussing how societal norms and reactions contribute to the perception of deviance. Furthermore, the assignment includes a survey to gauge public understanding and attitudes toward these topics, along with a historical overview of hybrid gender and sperm donation, providing a comprehensive exploration of deviance and its societal implications, supported by relevant references.

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REPRESENTATION OF THE DEVIANT CULTURE IN THE SOCIETY
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The first video that has been selected is that of the marriage of the transgender.
Though one can marry anybody they want in their respective life with full of dignity and
legal right, it is still a dream for many of the people who are of the transgender origin (Green,
Benner and Pear). The concept of the transgender in itself not an accepted phenomenon in the
society. The legal validity of the marriage involving the spouses of the transgender is not
established in the majority of the states. The concept of not being abiding by the gender roles of
the society is already not accepted by the people of the society. it leads to the validation of such
people from the main stream of the society. in addition to this, when the transgender tends to
marry others, it tends to add the effect and create more disastrous effect on the society claiming it
as as a deviant culture (Levitt & Ippolito 2014).
However, the marriage between the transgender are not seen as a deviant act by the
organizations who tends to work for the promotion of the acceptance of the transgender in the
society.
The social sanctions that are faced by the transgender is that they are not accepted in the
society. If a man dresses like a female, they are seen with bad eyes. They are not allowed to enter
into good works and are mostly avoided.

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Second video- the second video that has been taken into study is the video in which the muscle
building is being worshipped. The females are generally associated with the characteristics of
shyness, soft, good looking etc. On the other hand, the development of the muscles are generally
associated with the characters of the male. Therefore, when the females tends to worship and
build upon their muscles, they are treated as deviant from their behavior. This is considered to be
a deviant behavior because majority of the females in the society do not follow this and the
building up of the muscles is not commonly seen among the females in the society. It is rare
development among the females and therefore it is considered as something deviant.
The internet is the new sector in which the worshipping of the muscles by the females is
highly being acknowledged. It is a place where distinction is not being made between the males
and that of the females in regards to the worshipping of the females.
The females who are involved in worshipping of the females are often seen as the sexual
objects where developed muscles are being touched and felt by the clients. Instead of focusing
and appreciating the hard work that is being put for achieving the developed muscles, the
females are seen as the ones who can satisfy the needs of the males who have greater keen and
desire towards the dominant figures which are characterized by the development of the muscles.

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Third video- the third video that has been taken into account is that of the video of the hybrid
gender. When a male or a female have the biological organs of the opposite gender, it is said to
be of the hybrid gender.
The section of the audience who are considered to be hybrid concerning the biological
functions of the body is very much less in comparison to the people who are considered to be
“normal” as per the functions of the body in terms of the society. It is because the uniqueness of
their character, they are considered to be very much different from the rest of the society and
hence, their behavior is also considered to be deviant among the people of the society.
Some of the social sanctions that are being faced by the people of hybrid origin is that
such people are often harassed and neglected from the social scenarios. Implicit comments that is
being based on the sexism is also being conducted. on the other hand, the discriminations are
also made upon the gender discrimination against that of people with hybrid functions of the
body.

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Fourth Video- the fourth video that is being taken into account is that of the video of the nude
wedding
Nude weddings are also known as the naked marriages that tends to include the couple,
bridal parties and even the guest in the form of nude. In such a situation, the participants might
be seen committed to that of the nudist life styler or might even want a different kind of a
wedding (Yuan, Luo, and Li Pengcheng).
Nudity is something which every individual tends to keep it private from others. On the
other hand, the weddings are considered as the reunion of two individuals. In such a situation
when the nudity is being practiced, it becomes a deviant action altogether. Another reason for
which it is considered to be deviant is that the practice of the nudity in the wedding is not a
common affair.
The nudity in the wedding is highly accepted by the people who are close to the family
members and are event related to that of the same profession of nudity.
The social sanctions that are being followed against the naked wedding is that it can be
seen as something obscene and hence the people who are associated with the naked wedding is
seen as obscene as well.

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Fifth video- the fifth video that is being chosen for the study is the video of the private sperm
donors.
The sperm donation is the method in which sperm of the individual are being delivered to the
other females for the sake of the fertilization of the female ovary. The man who gives the sperm
is known as the sperm donor and the sperm which is being donated is known as the donor
sperms.
The job of donating the sperms to the others is considered as a deviant act by the
individuals because as per the conventional society, the exchange of the sperms mainly happens
between the wife and that of the husband.
The private sperm donors are considered to be important by those family members who
desperately wants a child and the sperms are not good to make the female ovary fertilize.

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sixth video- the sixth video that has been considered for the purpose of the study is that of the
looners. The looners are the ones who tends to seek some sort of sexual pleasure from that of the
balloons. It is considered to be a deviant act because mainly the children tends to play with the
balloons. It is very unlike of the individuals to have sexual pleasure from that of the balloons.
Such people also tends to get sexual pleasure when they burst the balloons.
The communities of the looners tend to accept the love for balloons among the each
other.

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Task 2
Survey
Name:
Age:
Gender:
What do u mean by deviance act?
you have any idea regarding the transgender?
Will you agree to their marriage?
Will you go the marriage of the trans genders?

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Do u believe in the artificial fertilization of the eggs?
Do u have any idea about the sperm donation?
Will you allow your child to take up the job of the sperm donation?if no, why?
What do you know about the hybrid gender?
Do you think that thee hybrid gender and the trans gender are the same?
Your opinion about the hybrid genders

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The results from the survey is that those actions which are perceived to be quite
uncommon is considered to be the defiant behavior in itself. The deviant act r the behavior
totally depends upon the acceptance of the society. If majority of the society is not agreeing to
the result then it leads one to say that he individual is of the deviant nature.

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Task 3
The first act that has been taken into account is that of the hybrid gender. History of this
study shows that the hybrid genders were first seen in the field reports from the study of the
social inequality among the Australian high schools concerning the conceptual discussion
regarding the creation of the masculinities and the experiences of the bodies of the men (Bridges,
Tristan and Cheri J). These beginnings were organized into an article which is being claimed as
the “male sex role”. Some of the hybrid masculinity draws some of the historical roots in both
the sectors of the social nature of the masculinity.
The history of the sperm donation was that in the year 1884, Professsor Pancost of
Philadelphia’s Jefferson Medical College performed an impregnation on the wife of the sterile
Quaker merchant (Van den Broeck). It is considered to be the first impregnation that
consequently resulted in the birth of the child. It is since that time that the doctors performed the
private process of impregnation.

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References
Bridges, Tristan, and Cheri J. Pascoe. "Hybrid masculinities: New directions in the sociology of
men and masculinities." Sociology Compass 8.3 (2014): 246-258.
Green, E. L., K. Benner, and R. Pear. "‘Transgender." Could Be Defined Out of Existence Under
Trump Administration, The New York Times (2018).
Levitt, H. M., & Ippolito, M. R. (2014). Being transgender: The experience of transgender
identity development. Journal of homosexuality, 61(12), 1727-1758.
Van den Broeck, Uschi, et al. "A systematic review of sperm donors: demographic
characteristics, attitudes, motives and experiences of the process of sperm
donation." Human reproduction update 19.1 (2013): 37-51.
Yuan, Luo, and Li Pengcheng. "Naked Marriage in the Perspective of Social
Transformation." Chongqing Social Sciences 7 (2015): 8.