Thursday, November 17, 2022

Deviance

 Deviance

any violation of norms, whether the infraction is minor as driving over the speed limit or as serious as murder. Howard Becker described it; it is not the act itself, but the reactions to the act, that make something deviant. , Behavior that violates the standards of conduct or expectations of a group or society. Any act to which people respond negatively. Deviance undermines predictability, the foundation of social life. Deviance refers to all violations of social rules, regardless of their seriousness.

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