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Sociological insights are found in different varieties. Deviant families such as “the Wild and Wonderful whites of West Virginia,” Life with Murder” “Farmingville” are an ideal explain to discuss about this topic. A common idea or explanation can be how these people grew up in economic style life or how these people mental issues. Deviant form grows up from aggressive lives, or can be changed from social or internal issues that relates to their families. No matter the situation there are always a common interest with families and cultural conflicts among deviant.

Second, The Wild and wonderful whites of West Virginia, is one of the ways that can be interrupt of deviance. They represent blaming society, and culture of poverty. Culture of poverty is a view the poor are qualitatively different in values and lifestyle from the rest of society and beliefs. Their faith over the years was hopeless due to loss of family members. This effect during the year created problems throughout their whole family. They’ve believed that there is a heaven and hell, but in the earth they’re living in is heaven. The reaction that comes after
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One of their children was a son named Brian. Their second child was a daughter who was slain. Brian brutal slain his own sister. He has shown results of deviant. When he was a little boy, he started to develop mental angry issues and was always disobedient. Brian and this family arrived to the house. Once they had arrived their mother call out for her daughter. She went on a search for her thought out the house. She finally found her down stair in the basement bleeding from her body and head. When Brian called the police, he started at his own sister on the floor. The police asked so much questions, and said they are on the way there. He then soon left his family home, he mentions that he need to take a breath. Than was sent to jail after he was captured from the

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