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What does deviance mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word deviance? Here's what it means.

Noun
  1. (sociology) Actions or behaviors that violate formal and informal cultural norms such as laws and customs.
  2. A person or thing that differs from the expected. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
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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.

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