Deviance in a sentence

For example, normality and deviance became more of a matter of health and illness than of good and evil, and the physician took over from the priest the role of defining, promoting, and healing deviance.

Deviance, where one deliberately violates norms, should not be tolerated—one reason why teachers who tolerate cheating are as much to blame as their students.

Lord Arthurson described the predator’s offences as “abhorrent crimes” of the utmost "deviance and depravity”, which had had an “incalculable” impact on his young victim and her family.

She majored in liberal studies and sociology with a concentration in social deviance.

In a democracy, this spirit of inquiry should be the norm, not a deviance.

He lauded the monarch’s contributions to addressing the issues of unemployment, social deviance and value orientation among youths which culminated in the establishment of the Agbor Youth Learning, Development and Empowerment Centre.

It's called the Normalization of Deviance.

The movie's pinwheeling plot—criss-crossing romantic affairs, a drug and money-laundering scandal, employment woes, etc., etc.—is an overwhelming morass of wit, language, deviance, insecurity, and perhaps above all, pleasure.

Andy Medhurst wrote in his 1991 essay "Batman, Deviance, and Camp" that Batman is interesting to gay audiences because "he was one of the first fictional characters to be attacked on the grounds of his presumed homosexuality".

Around the early 1970s many sociologists, notably Eliot Friedson, began to argue that labeling theory and social deviance could be applied to disability studies.

Children with little or no communication with their own parents tended to be the victims of another child’s deviant behavior and may be involved in some deviance themselves.

Deviance also causes multiple emotions one experiences when going against a norm.

Deviance: Theories on Behaviors That Defy Social Norms.

Except the idea of this deviance manifesting as a criminal action, the social tolerance given in the example of the child is quickly withdrawn against the criminal.

Hand in hand with deviance, the consequences of one’s behavior, whether positive or negative, will determine the probability of reoccurrence as well as the push towards regulating one’s decisions in the future.

He described 5 types of deviance in terms of the acceptance or rejection of social goals and the institutionalized means of achieving them.

He opposed the use of psychiatry to forcibly detain, treat, or excuse what he saw as mere deviance from societal norms or moral conduct.

In the case of social deviance, an individual who has gone against a norm will feel the negative connotation that comes with defying the conditioning that was taught therefore indicating negative reinforcement.

It promoted the sense of deviance and removal from social control.

John Paul II suggested that American bishops be more open and transparent in dealing with such scandals and emphasised the role of seminary training to prevent sexual deviance among future priests.