Example of something that to be deviant but is now commonly accepted

Can you give me an example of something that used to be deviant but is now commonly accepted and exactly what caused the changes for it to be accepted?

Functionalist Perspective and the media

I am looking for help for a discussion on the portrayal of African Americans and television shows from the Functionalist Perspective. Like how the treatment of Blacks has changed over time and how often they are portrayed as real people vs stereotypes or token walk-ons. Hope you can help. Thank you.

Deviance and society

I'm really having a problem understanding the three major perspectives. I need to discuss how deviance can BENEFIT society by using all three perspectives; functionalism, conflict and interactionism.

Theoretical Perspectives of Karl Marx, Emile Durkheim, and Max Weber

'...Sociology was born out of the transformation which wrenched the industrializing order of the west away from the forms of life characteristics of pre-existing societies...' (Giddens, 1986). One of the major changes (transformations) that occurred in the late 18th and early 19th centuries was the emergence of sharp heterogeneity, differentiation, and stratification in social, economic, and political arena among the human population. A dominant concern of sociological analysis was to understand and explain this phenomenon. Using theoretical perspectives of Karl Marx, Emile Durkheim, and Max Weber explain how each of three perspectives construe and explain the emergence of this phenomenon... click for more

Sociological Imagination in either the Civil Rights Movement OR Hurricane Katrina

Sociological Imagination in either the Civil Rights Movement OR Hurricane Katrina One of the larger aims of the study of sociology is to enable one to develop what C. Wright Mills (1959) called Sociological Imagination. Analyze the phenomenon of the Civil Rights Movement OR Hurricane Katrina to answer the following: What constitutes the sociological imagination in the respective phenomenon? If and when applied does it contribute to a better understanding of the phenomenon in question? If yes, how? If not, why not? Give substantial reasons.