Non-conformism

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Personal attitudes or attitudes , individual actions or philosophical positions that are not in accordance with generally accepted views , the valid etiquette , the prevailing lifestyle or the cultural mainstream are referred to as nonconformism or nonconformity (more rarely: anti- conformism ) .

General

Individuals who deviate greatly from the social norm are called eccentrics . In the cultural context one speaks of belonging to a counterculture or " underground " movement, in the political one of dissidentity . Individual non-conforming acts that violate legal norms, but are carried out for reasons of conscience in order to symbolically indicate an injustice situation, are referred to as acts of civil disobedience .

criminology

From the perspective of criminology provides nonconformist behavior , a different behavior is that unlike aberrant behavior associated with a denial of the validity of the violated rule or norm. A distinction is made between passive independence from or indifference to social rules and active combat against these rules. An example of actively non-conforming behavior would be a political crime .

Church history

As Nonconformists (also Dissenters ) were the relatives of some of the Anglican Church called deviant groups, formed their own between the 16th and 18th century religious communities who refused indeed to comply with certain religious rules of the official Church, but initially clung to the church community.

literature

  • Siegfried Lamnek : Theory of deviant behavior. 7th edition. Munich 2001, ISBN 3-8252-0740-4 , p. 300.
  • W. Geiger: Conscience, ideology, resistance, nonconformism: basic questions of law. A. Pustet, 1963.
  • W. Lipp: Conformism-Nonconformism. Hermann Luchterhand Verlag, 1975.