Abstract
Social deviance theories may be grouped in several ways. Grimshaw (1970), for example, identified four categories of theorists: Psychoanalysts posit individual propensities arising in early childhood (for example, Freud) or later in life cycle (Erickson, Bettelheim); psychologists point to the interaction of the individual and environment (Glaser); psychologists point to attitudes and prejudice manifest in behavior (Allport, McGuire); and sociologists explain deviance in terms of the hierarchy of status and power in the structure (Durkheim). Hirschi (1969), on the other hand, identified three types of theory: strain (or psychological) theory argues that when conformity to conventional behavior does not attain personal ends, deviant behavior ensues; cultural deviance (or anthropological) theory holds that individual deviance from main culture results from conformity in values and behavior to a deviant sub culture; control (or sociological) theory states that when the social bonds holding the individual accountable to conventional morality weaken, he chooses the ends and means only of his own
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