deviance
IPA: dˈiviʌns
noun
- (sociology) Actions or behaviors that violate formal and informal cultural norms such as laws and customs.
- A person or thing that differs from the expected.
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Examples of "deviance" in Sentences
- Crime and deviance vary with age.
- Goode specializes in the sociology of deviance.
- Deviance then is a symptom of the social structure.
- I have a problem with the deviance section's last paragraph.
- His work is a comment on broad definitions of deviance, and little more.
- Ideally, it would help to have a class of Religion and Deviance articles.
- From that formula, I could then draw a flightpath that negated the deviance.
- For decades, it was considered as heresy, deviance from the true Golf belief.
- Last month, I proposed such a deviance in the policy, and it was not accepted.
- Primary deviance is any general deviance before the deviant is labeled as such.
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