Document Type : Special

Authors

• Gholam Reza Shafaq ¹
• Sayyed Hossain Sharafuddin ²
• Abdolhadi Salehizadeh ³

¹ student of cultural sociology

² Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, Imam Khomeini Educational and Research Institute, Iran

³ Assistant Professor, Department of Islamic Education, Khuzestan University of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources

Abstract

Many functional structural theories emphasize only social deviations; but some of the group's thinkers, such as Sutherland, have investigated white-collar devitions and corruption, there are other major political and economic deviations in Qur'anic verses and the theory of conflict that have more dangerous consequences and more complex dimensions. In this article, the categories of such deviations are extracted from the theory of contradiction by qualitative content analysis method and then presented to the Qur'an and the final categories and subcategories are extracted. According to these categories, the deviations of the powerful and the rich in the first place harm the thoughts and feelings of the powerful and make them reckless towards others, cultural principles and waste of valuable economic resources. They also justify and institutionalize deviant behaviors through influence, culture, and legitimacy. By exploiting, monopolizing, colonizing, creating false needs, introducing deviant reference groups, they force others to obey and imitate. Therefore, the mechanisms of the deviations of the able are different from the deviations of the poor. The able-bodied use emotional mechanism, intellectual, and normative mechanisms to produce deviations. Their deviations have unintended consequences, such as the escape of the powerful and the rich from social responsibilities and the spread of indifference. Their deviations ultimately destroy the culture and structure of society, although it is more difficult to control and explain due to the legitimacy and influence of the powerful, and the verses of the Qur'an are the best source for examining it.

Keywords

• Power
• wealth
• perversion
• the deprived
• perverted behavior