Saints and Roughnecks

This study was an incredibly interesting one. It reveals something that many people know but do not talk about. That is that rich kids that play the game right can get away with almost anything because authority often just looks the other way. Poorer kids on the other hand have it opposite the rich kids and actually get in trouble for stuff that maybe they shouldnt be. Authority is more strict when it comes to poorer kids. This happens in Stevenson exactly the way it happened in the study, at least for the saints. Roughnecks are less prevelant, but saints are known and everyone just looks the other way, mostly, becasue people are afraid of their power. Saints have power to do a lot and exposing them would just end up bad for the person that ruined their act. This shows that deviance is relative. Deviant acts, in the case of the study both negative, are ignored in one case and exagerated in the other, depending on social standing. This may be unfair but it is kind of the way we have been socially constructed. The saints and roughnecks are very relevent to many places and are a great example of a basic social structure.