deviance

How To Use deviance In A Sentence

• Positive deviance says that if you want to create change, you must scale it down to the lowest level of granularity and look for people within the social system who are already manifesting the desired future state.
• By pleading economic necessity, the company tacitly rules out of court all arguments based on morality or claims that they are supporting deviance.
• To understand deviance and crime one needs to be aware of what constitutes normality, a task which became increasingly difficult as social upheavals continued through the early 1990s when the fieldwork was conducted.
• The ugly body is thus a body whose difference from the normal body is turned into deviance.
• Deviance refers to behavior or characteristics that violate significant social norms and expectations and are negatively valued by large numbers of people.
• I have moped my way into too great a deviance from the schedule, I fear. ANTI-ICE
• There are always cross-currents and enclaves, deviances or doublings back from what appears to be the main path.
• He had to admit, there was a part of him that did want to get physically closer to the picketers and hear what they had to say, with the hopes they would be able to utter something about his deviance that would convince him with conclusiveness, elusive conclusiveness, that he had to abandon his ways. A Country Called AMREEKA
• In such a mentality, “wrongness” is understood as transgression, which is understood as deviance from the “natural order”, which is understood in terms of the received wisdom of norms-as-law. Bukiet on Brooklyn Books
• By the book's end, readers will find themselves as deeply entwined in the characters 'fates as Nunn is herself, and left to ruminate over a number of weighty debates as the tale weaves in double standards, double lives, emotional betrayal, murder, corruption and sexual deviance. A Beautiful Place to Die: Summary and book reviews of A Beautiful Place to Die by Malla Nunn.