In Wayward Pilgrims,Kai Erikson Built on ÉMile Durkheim's Concept of Deviance,concluding

In Wayward Pilgrims,Kai Erikson built on Émile Durkheim's concept of deviance,concluding that:

A) a society needs a certain quota of deviants to function and maintain itself
B) the role of police, courts, and psychiatrists is to eliminate deviance and thereby improve society
C) the Puritans "refined deviance down," resulting in many of the social problems we face today
D) deviants were created by those people who would try to eliminate them
E) deviance is actually a cultural norm, not nonconformist as Durkheim believed