Deviance

In order to answer to the question whether people with hearing problems are social deviants, we firstly have to define deviance. According to the reader, deviance is considered as a violation of agreed-upon rules or norms. <Tab/>Now, we can view hearing impaired people, as social deviants because they constitute a group in which all its members have the same specialty. They've decided to detach from the society of normal people …

…stigmatized and others expect from him to behave in deviant ways. Apparently, this is not always the case especially in deviance as behavior because once, he might have violated the social norms and he was punished, but afterwards he got his lesson and wants to make a new life. On the other hand, the society will always have doubts about him and will never consider him as a normal member because now he is stigmatized.