The Cosby Show Deviance Research Paper

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Deviance and its Consequences Lakisha Murphy SOC 100 Everyday Sociology June 24, 2012 The sitcom I Identify on television is The Cosby Show, it appeared on NBC from 1984 to 1992. It was the best sitcom that was on television in New York City then. The series was based on African American family. The cast that plays in the sitcom are Dr. Heathcliff Huxtable, OB-GYN (Bill Cosby) husband, Clair Huxtable, attorney- wife, (Phylicia Ayres Allen) had aspirations of raising their five children Sondra Huxtable ( Sabrina Le Beauf), Denise Huxtable ( Lisa Bonet) , Theodore ‘Theo’ Huxtable ( Malcolm-Jamal Warner), Vanessa Huxtable ( Tempestt Bledsoe) and Rudy Huxtable ( Keshia Knight Pulliam) shows how family need to be today. There were many deviance…show more content…
I have always said that I want a family like that. Because they have their ups and down, hard times and have many issues dealing with the children. But thru it all they survived. The deviant behavior has been in the Huxtable children. Like in Season 5 Episode 22 when Rudy and Vanessa were behaving badly. They were fighting each other, breaking things, and making the stuff fall from the ceiling. When their parents witnessed their behavior, all the fighting and tearing up the house stopped. Mr. and Mrs. Huxtable had no choice but to react in a responsible way by sending them to the basements by themselves. They tried many attempts to control their misbehaving children. When they placed them in the basement just the two of them, they noticed the change. They let them come out to eat, brush there teeth, and watch TV. When Rudy and Vanessa started to misbehavior again while they were in the front room watching TV, they were sent back to the basement. Once the parents notice there was no more fighting, they let them have there rooms back. Many think The Cosby Show is not being realistic enough. I myself think it is very real. My family and I use to sit down at the table and pretend that we were the Huxtable family. My brother Maurice played Heathcliff, I played Clair, and my brothers and sister played the rest of characters. One day we tried to put together a singing scene like the Huxtables for our…show more content…
Making bad grades, keeping a nasty room knowing that he has to finish school and attend college to become like his father. Denise dropped out of college because she didn’t want attend college she only wanted the career. The parents never turned their backs, instead they always told the kids they were always welcome home no matter what. They were trying to make them see life on the hard side. I have three boys and I am a single parent trying to help my boys get by in life by making good grades. I try to have a positive attitude to teach them how to be neat and respectful to all people. I tell them that life do not owe them anything. Life is what you make out of it. So if you do not put anything in the world you would not get anything out of it. As you can see Theo parents are rich and have a very good job but they didn’t allow their children to have their way. They didn’t wear name brand clothes or shoes. But all that mattered to the parent is the children’s grades and

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