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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
deviance
noun
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▪ As in other forms of enforcement, deviance which has taken place once is assumed capable of repetition.
▪ Examples have been widely attested of learners who exhibit correct performance on certain forms, and then lapse into deviance later on.
▪ On the other hand, the gallery of types of male deviance is far more richly furnished.
▪ Prompted largely by developments in psychiatry, a change occurred in the very definition of deviance.
▪ The question stylistics must consider is: how are these three concepts of deviance, prominence, and foregrounding interrelated?
▪ We might even go so far as to say that amplification of deviance among one group rather than among another could simply be due to chance.
▪ We saw too the marked trend to disavow deviance amongst the women whose personal histories are discussed in Chapter 2.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
deviance

deviance \deviance\ n.

  1. an aberrant state or condition.

    Syn: aberrance, aberrancy, aberration.

  2. deviate behavior.

    Syn: deviation.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
deviance

1944; see deviant + -ance. A sociologists' word, perhaps coined because statisticians and astronomers already had claimed deviation.

Wiktionary
deviance

n. 1 (context sociology English) Actions or behaviors that violate formal and informal norms such as laws and customs 2 A person or thing that differs from the expected.

WordNet
deviance
  1. n. a state or condition markedly different from the norm [syn: aberrance, aberrancy, aberration]

  2. deviate behavior [syn: deviation]

Wikipedia
Deviance

Deviance may refer to:

  • Deviance (sociology), actions or behaviors that violate social norms
  • Deviance (statistics), a quality of fit statistic for a model
  • Positive deviance
  • Paraphilia, historically referred to as sexual deviance
  • Bid‘ah, Islamic term for innovations and deviations acts or groups from orthodox Islamic law (Sharia)
Deviance (statistics)

In statistics, deviance is a quality-of-fit statistic for a model that is often used for statistical hypothesis testing. It is a generalization of the idea of using the sum of squares of residuals in ordinary least squares to cases where model-fitting is achieved by maximum likelihood.

Deviance (sociology)

In sociology, deviance describes an action or behavior that violates social norms, including a formally enacted rule (e.g., crime), as well as informal violations of social norms (e.g., rejecting folkways and mores). It is the purview of criminologists, psychiatrists, psychologists, and sociologists to study how these norms are created, how they change over time, and how they are enforced.

Norms are rules and expectations by which members of society are conventionally guided. Deviance is an absence of conformity to these norms. Social norms differ from culture to culture. For example, a deviant act can be committed in one society that breaks a social norm there, but may be normal for another society.

Viewing deviance as a violation of social norms, sociologists have characterized it as any thought, feeling, or action that members of a social group judge to be a violation of their values or rules or group conduct, that violates definitions of appropriate and inappropriate conduct shared by the members of a social system. The departure of certain types of behavior from the norms of a particular society at a particular time and "violation of certain types of group norms where behavior is in a disapproved direction and of sufficient degree to exceed the tolerance limit of the community.

Deviance can be relative to place and time because what is considered deviant in one social context may be non-deviant in another (e.g., fighting during a hockey game vs. fighting in a nursing home). Killing another human is considered wrong, except when governments permit it during warfare or for self defense. Deviant actions can be mala in se or mala prohibita.

Usage examples of "deviance".

If anonymity increases deviant behavior, then one way to deal with that deviance would be to decrease anonymity.

So I started my own sheet of instructions that included this and all the other deviances and omissions the engineers never bothered to fix.

But fleetwide arrays logged signal deviance similar to the brownout incident, just prior to the neural event that seems to have taken out the surface elements.

In China deviance is a capital offence, I don't know about living in a country where my natural tendancies could see me end up with the traditional rememdy of a bullet in the back of the head.