Answer to Question #241792 in Sociology for Payman

Question

During the Vietnam war in the 1960s and early 1970s, Americans who opposed the war sometimes expressed their views by burning the United States flag. Many Americans were very offended by this act of protest. Write a sociological description of flag burning. Using the following terms in your description: deviance, material culture, symbol, norms, counterculture 

Answer 1

The American flag is a material culture that symbolizes the peace, freedom, and bravery of Americans. therefore the countercultures used to burn the American flag to protest against the government policies while other American citizens perceived the burning of the flag as a deviant action and thus rushed to the court to defy the flag-burning amendment. Later the Congress approved the federal flag desecration norms that anyone found in interfering with the flag by either burning or trampling will be sentenced to prison for not more than one year