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Deviance can be described as a violation of these norms.

Norms are the specific behavioral standards, ways in which people are supposed to act, paradigms for predictable behavior in society.

They are, in other words, contextual.

For example, a deviant act can be committed in one society or culture that breaks a social norm there, but may be considered normal for another culture and society.

Norms are rules of conduct, not neutral or universal, but ever changing; shifting as society shifts; mutable, emergent, loose, reflective of inherent biases and interests, and highly selfish and one-sided.

Norms are rules of conduct, not neutral or universal, but ever changing; shifting as society shifts; mutable, emergent, loose, reflective of inherent biases and interests, and highly selfish and one-sided.

Deviance can be described as a violation of these norms.

Norms are the specific behavioral standards, ways in which people are supposed to act, paradigms for predictable behavior in society.

Norms are the specific behavioral standards, ways in which people are supposed to act, paradigms for predictable behavior in 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";[1] "violation of the norms of a society or group";[2] "conduct that violates definitions of appropriate and inappropriate conduct shared by the members of a social system";[3] "the departure of certain types of behavior from the norms of a particular society at a particular time";[4] and...

They are not necessarily moral, or even grounded in morality; in fact, they are just as often pragmatic and, paradoxically, irrational.

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";[1] "violation of the norms of a society or group";[2] "conduct that violates definitions of appropriate and inappropriate conduct shared by the members of a social system";[3] "the departure of certain types of behavior from the norms of a particular society at a particular time";[4] and "viola...

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";[1] "violation of the norms of a society or group";[2] "conduct that violates definitions of appropriate and inappropriate conduct shared by the members of a social system";[3] "the departure of certain types of behavior from the norms of a particular society at a particular time";[4] and...