Power, ' as the sociologist Nachman Ben-Yehuda writes, 'enters the picture in two ways': the first entails constructing and legitimizing the moral system itself; the second, in enforcing it. In this view, 'deviants are those who simply do not have enough power to prevent others from defining them as such'. Shuli Barzilai
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Power, as the sociologist Nachman Ben-Yehuda writes, 'enters the picture in two ways': the first entails constructing and legitimizing the moral system itself; the second, in enforcing it. In this view, 'deviants are those who simply do not have enough power to prevent others from defining them as such'. Those who are powerful do not need to make a conscious effort to enforce their power because it is inherent within them. Because of this, those who are not powerful must depend on others to define them as deviants.

If they fail to do so, they run the risk of being labeled as deviants themselves. In addition, those who are powerless also have a tendency to seek out those who are powerful because they want someone outside of their group to validate them as acceptable deviants.

Source: Tales Of Bluebeard And His Wives From Late Antiquity To Postmodern Times

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