Social Deviance

To begin, deviance is any behavior that does not conform to societal norms and is disapproved by large numbers of people. Deviance is relative and changes over time as the world is socially defined; everyone is deviant to some extent. There are many theories behind it giving a vast variety of interpretations. When looking at deviance form a sociological point of view it contains definitions of a wide nature, which are branched off into several perspective groups. One can look at a single act of deviance using these different theories.
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