1. The Great Deviance Photo Scavenger Hunt List – Be creative! Don’t break the law! Use only one camera! You have 30 minutes!
1 Point Items (Please take a photo of an example of…) 3 Point Items (Please take a photo of…)
___ Moral entrepreneurship on campus ___ Space that is not ADA compliant on campus
___ Normalized deviance on campus ___ Your group being chased by another Deviance group
___ Positive deviance on campus ___ Strangers pointing and laughing at your group members
___ A “deviant” institution on campus ___ Your group with someone dressed in very formal attire
___ Surveillance on campus ___ Your group with finger mustaches in front of an Oxy building
___ Social control on campus ___ Your group spelling out a word with your bodies
___ Heternormativity on campus ___ Your group spelling out “Deviance” in front of an Oxy building
___ Pathological definition of deviance on campus ___ Your group spelling out “We Heart Sociology” in front of an Oxy
___ Social reaction model of deviance on campus building
___ Demonic perspectives on deviance on campus ___ Evidence of drug use on campus
___ Sexism on campus ___ Evidence of white supremacy on campus
___ Labeling on campus ___ Materials from ProjectSAFE, Center for Gender Equity, Center for
___ Homophobia or transphobia on campus Community Engagement, Intercultural Community Center
___ Heternormativity on campus ___ The schedule for Oxy’s 2012 Take Back the Night
___ Institutional discrimination on campus ___ The schedule for Oxy’s 2012 Gaypril
___ Deviance as a function that helps campus run more smoothly ___ Free condoms/dental dams given away on campus
___ Innovation, conformity, ritualism, retreatism, or rebellion ___ Group member/group arm wrestling a stranger
___ Group member/group having staring contest against a stranger
2 Point Items (Please take a photo of…) ___ The cover of a book on deviance in the library stacks
___ An example of a campus policy that perpetuates, not stops, deviance ___ A title page of a journal article on deviance in the library stacks
___ Your group with the Oxy mascot ___ Your group inviting strangers to take “awkward prom photos”
___ A fact about “deviance” that destigmatizes written on sidewalk ___ Your group reading Stigma aloud to a group of strangers
___ Your group’s name posted publicly on campus ___ Your group conducting a freeze mob with 10 other people not in our
___ Your group teaching a dance in the quad or library class
___ Evidence of a criminal activity on campus ___ Your group in a blanket or pillow fort
___ Your group doing exactly what a sign says (one that already exists) ___ Your group and a faculty member’s dog on campus
___ Your group doing exactly not what a sign says (one that already exists) ___ Your group returning stolen silver ware to the Market Place
___ Flyer inviting students to “become deviant” or “manage their stigma ___ Secret deviance being exposed
collectively” ___ An example of graffiti that stigmatizes and a response that bites back!
___ An Oxy Weekly article that discusses something “deviant” (please don’t write it!)
___ Group member “passing” or “covering” in a public setting to conform
___ A class on campus more “deviant” than ours Group Generated Items (3 Points Each)
___ Picking up litter on campus ___1. _________________________________________________
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Source: Danielle Dirks, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, Occidental College // 1600 Campus Rd. M-26 Los Angeles, CA 90041
dirks@oxy.edu // danielledirks.com // @danielledirks