Almost always used by outsiders rather than inhabitants of the communities so labeled, the term connoted both poverty and deviance. |
But this business seemed to be defacing its own windows, in a reflexive act of social deviance. |
He reinforced an Australian cultural stereotype which equated intellectualism with sexual deviance. |
He intends for his work to respond to gaps in both the history of prostitution and the sociology of deviance and social control. |
We all have our own opinion as to where normal behaviors end and deviance begins but there is no need for me to spell that out here. |
Around the same time, Durkheim was proposing that deviance served an important social function. |